CS235 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sam Dunn, Thick Description, Participant Observation
Document Summary
Not a free flowing set of ideas or beliefs, nor its exemplified only by a canon of great works of art and literature. The production of meaning or a signifying practice. This intersection is the basis for what is called the lived experience. Best understood as conflict of biography and history. Central material and symbolic practices of articulating lived experiences is narrative and storytelling. Narrative is a cultural form and storying telling is the performance of the narrative. Entering a field from outside and working on the inside. Enter the specific and bounded words of lived experiences and the articulation of the social and the textual. Ex: sam dunn in metal: a headbanger"s journey. Researcher participating overtly and covertly in people"s everyday lives and observing/ asking questions. To expose its social and cultural construction. The art or mental trick of making a social setting and behaviour within it appear as if the observer is encountered as a stranger.
