ANTH-A 107 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erving Goffman, Designated Driver, Socratic Method
Scott Fabius Kiesling: Power and the Language of men
• The fraterity’s ideology ad the speeh situatios aailale to its eers ostrai the
identities the members can choose. Each member is free to create an identity through speech.
Each member has differet disursie resoures
• 7 types of power
o Physical – (coercive and ability)
▪ Coercive – creating power by physical force
▪ Ability – creating power with their skill
o Economic – rewards one action with another (internship to job)
o Knowledge – process of gaining knowledge in order to perform an action
o Structural – the power of a place within a structure which is usually hierarchical
o Nurturant – the process of helping others (teaching, feeding, designated driver)
o Demeanor – the power of solidarity, built on foundation of good morals (the good guy)
o Ideology – the lens though which individuals evaluate other people processes. This
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• Ideology – set of ideas and values that structure our social relationships
Elizabeth Mertz: Linguistic Ideology and Praxis in US Law School Classrooms
• The teacher in law school using the Socratic method on a student
• Socratic method – a professor addressed a series of question to a single student to provoke a
certain response
o Elements – one professor asks one student to lead them to the answer the professor is
looking for
o Social business – establish power for professor, inhibits the values of the student
• Metapragmatics – the set of social and cultural understandings that inform the ways we achieve
things through communication (how we know what to do or say in order to get what we want)
Susan U. Phillips: Participant structures
• Native American students in the classroom acted differently than the other students because
they had different upbringing.
• Metapragmatic expectation – the expectation that things will be talked about that are relevant
to the situation (all talk in classroom should be relevant to the topic at hand)
• Participant structures – the way interaction is organized
o The Indians in the reservation had no leader, participated by choice and never work
alone. In school they have a leader, are forced to participate and have to work alone
• Bracketing social context – a crucial way in which law achieves objectivity and lawyers achieve
dispassionate professional competence
Erving Goffman: Footing
• Footing – to change footing means to change your stance
• Animator – speaker who simply reads or recites a script that she did not create
• Author – speaker both companies and utters the words he speaks
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