An Ethnographic Study Macy’s Employees Social Performances In my ethnographic study‚ I apply theoretical concepts developed by Erving Goffman in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life to the behavior of employees in the retail department store‚ Macy’s. Goffman (1959) argues that social interactions in everyday life can be understood as presentations between performers and audiences. Within social establishments‚ he suggests four analytical frameworks may govern how performers stage their “characters”
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What about a bike! Going down and up hills what are huge. It’s called “ The tour de France”. This bike race is insane‚ bikers from all around the world come to this race and compete against the best. This race is in eastern Europe‚ the bikers who come to complete take months
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Critical Ethnographic Film Review Zapatista Zapatista‚ a film by Benjamin Eichert‚ Rick Rowley‚ and Staale Sandberg is based in the most southern state in Mexico‚ Chiapas. This films depicts indigenous people in Chiapas fighting for visibility and recognition against their country and government. When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in to law‚ on January first 1994‚ the Zapatista National Liberation Movement (EZLN) rose up and seized several cities in Chiapas to fight
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Living in a small town with few cultural differences‚ people after years living around each other having adapted to each other’s culture-made it difficult for me to choose a place. After‚ asking the professor for an advice about where to complete my ethnographic report‚ as suggested to visit a church‚ I decided to visit the Sikh temple located in Delano on Sunday‚ January 7th. I drove by the temple‚ but no one was around‚ but a sign with the local number. Having called so many times-no response‚ I decided
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Ethnographic Study Proposal “Factors That Contribute to Cross-Racial Interactions on Rowan University’s Campus” Heather Burley Anthropology 02202 Professor Jay Gabriel Ph.D. Rowan University The study that I would conduct is based on discovering the factors that influence and promote cross-racial interaction on Rowan University’s
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Principles of Good Research & & Research Proposal Guide e Prepared by the Policy‚ Performance and Quality Assurance Unit (Adults) Tamsin White March 2006 Principles of Good Research All research is different but the following factors are common to all good pieces of research involving social care service users‚ their families and carers and staff working in this area. There is a clear statement of research aims‚ which defines the research question. There is an information
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face. This was his job and he loved it. When you love the wilderness‚ being out in the woods for eight hours a day was a treat. Especially when it ended with picking up a paycheck of about a thousand dollars at the end of each of those days. What we were doing was a part of history. A part of history that has been going on for hundreds of years up until now‚ and will continue to go on for as long as people want to keep eating these little brown mudbugs. Crawfish were a significant part of
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Part 1 Cleopatra Carefully read the following extract several times. How does this passage characterise the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra and how does this compare to its portrayal in other Roman Sources in Book 1‚ Chapter 1? In this extract Antony is portrayed as being besotted with Cleopatra even after she had betrayed him. The extract also indicates Antony cannot live without Cleopatra ‘Why delay any longer‚ Antony? Fate has taken away the one excuse which could still make you desire
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3. What are the main research methods for data gathering that sociologists use to study the social world? What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of each method? Sociologists typically use one of the five key research methods when conducting research‚ and collecting data. These data gathering techniques are experiments‚ interviews‚ surveys‚ field observations‚ and historical data. The lecture about studying the social world explains that‚ there are many different considerations to make when
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For my ethnographic study I chose to examine the life at Moe’s restaurant located one block from my home and where I used to work. The main focus of my study is to compare the norms of the employees when the manager is there and when he is gone. As defined in Sociology: A Brief Introduction‚ by John J Macionis‚ a norm is “an established standard of behavior maintained by a society”. How does the employees’ behavior change when the manager is there watching them compared to when she leaves someone
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