Sociology 3307F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Mitchell Duneier, Discourse Analysis, Cyber-Ethnography

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 3307F/G
• Professor: Stephen Lin

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Several new modes of research: discourse analysis; narrative analysis; autoethnography; ethnodrama or performance ethnography; visual sociology including photo elicitation; virtual ethnography; and researching in the blogosphere and twitter. Discourse analysis is an interpretive approach influenced by the writing of michel. He (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed that la(cid:374)guage is (cid:374)ot o(cid:374)l(cid:455) a too; that des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)es (cid:396)ealit(cid:455) (cid:271)ut also a (cid:858)so(cid:272)ial p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e, a (cid:449)a(cid:455) of doi(cid:374)g thi(cid:374)gs(cid:859) He suggests that discourse-the language we use to describe ourselves and our world- controls the way we define and think about our and othe(cid:396)s(cid:859) pla(cid:272)e i(cid:374) the world limits the way we think. He believed powerful components in the world control the way we think and define society. Language shapes the ways in which individuals understand and experience their world and their selves. For example, la(cid:271)elli(cid:374)g so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e (cid:858)ha(cid:374)di(cid:272)ap(cid:859) (cid:455)ou a(cid:396)e adopti(cid:374)g a (cid:858)disa(cid:271)ilit(cid:455)(cid:859) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h limits their social participation. Challenging the dominant discourse can invoke the sociological imagination and transform personal problems into a social issue.