ANTHROP 3P03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-5: Erving Goffman, Ethnography
18 Apr 2018
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Reading commentary: chapters 3, 4, and 5 in on the run. Chapter four begins with showing that men and women use the interventions of the. There are two types of women related to the men that are being searched for; informant and resister or snitch and abandoner or rider, respectively. Women become one of the two through police coercion, threats of arrest, eviction, child custody, and violence, amongst numerous other approaches". But a rider can become a snitch through any of the conditions previously mentioned. The chapter, in addition to showing how women were treated, also showed the extent of police brutality, as goffman herself was intercepted and almost attacked for not responding to the police asking where mike was. Even the police states a veiled threat, of her being to blame when miss regina"s house is destroyed, especially since she takes pride in it.
