SOAN 3070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Autoethnography, Cultural Studies, Ethnography

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 3070
• Professor: Katie Mac Donald

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Thus, it limits how we think and he believed that powerful components of society control the way we talk and define phenomena. It shapes the ways in which individuals understand and experience their world and themselves: challenging the dominant discourse can invoke sociological imagination, changing a personal issue into one that is social. It often identifies and critiques everyday concepts and demonstrate how they serve interest of those in power. It assumes that the terms and metaphors not only reflect what is already there but actually create the social world thus the analyst seeks to explain what the discourse is doing and how it is being accomplished. This is also what transcription tries to capture. Ethnodrama: known as performance ethnography, they create the most credible, vivid and persuasive portrait of the participants lived experience, effective when the researcher is looking to disseminate information to a specific audience or to the general public.