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Field Methods: Teens: Section1: First Thoughts
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Friday, April 11, 2008. OK all- good week and good brainstorming on organizing our thoughts for Section 1. What do we know for sure? 2 HOW MUCH SHOULD I WRITE? It need not be "comprehensive": that is, it is not a full life history, but rather a "slice in time." The portrait reveals the adolescent now: but he or she can reflect on past and future (this will help us understand how they think of themselves in present time). 3WHAT IS "CULTURAL IDENTITY"? 4 WHAT DOES YOUR INFORMANT WANT TO SAY ABOUT HERSELF?
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Field Methods: Teens: September 2008
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Thursday, September 18, 2008. Goth Style Remains for High Schoolers. Read NY Times article below:. September 18, 2008. You Just Can’t Kill It. DON’T know how it happened. It felt more like a gradual, irresistible drift, but in retrospect, it might have been a sudden, overnight conversion. Maybe our local video store rented “The Hunger” one too many times. Secretly I nursed grandiose ideas that my funereal vintage attire aligned me with beatniks, existentialists, Zen Buddhists, French Situationists, 1930s...
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Field Methods: Teens: Reconnecting: Tuesday's Class
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Monday, March 24, 2008. Welcome back wayward fieldworkers! All blogs read, and 1/3 papers done (guess what- they all came in last night! Let's re-connect and discuss final sections/blogging, etc. I'm going to bring several material culture papers to class to read sections for form and language to use for final sections. We'll start thinking about working groups and meetings. And here's a short version of the graffiti film ( style wars. To discuss the attraction of this style to teens. Gen X: video games.
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Field Methods: Teens: April 2008
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Friday, April 11, 2008. OK all- good week and good brainstorming on organizing our thoughts for Section 1. What do we know for sure? 2 HOW MUCH SHOULD I WRITE? It need not be "comprehensive": that is, it is not a full life history, but rather a "slice in time." The portrait reveals the adolescent now: but he or she can reflect on past and future (this will help us understand how they think of themselves in present time). 3WHAT IS "CULTURAL IDENTITY"? 4 WHAT DOES YOUR INFORMANT WANT TO SAY ABOUT HERSELF?
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Field Methods: Teens: Goth Style Remains for High Schoolers
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Thursday, September 18, 2008. Goth Style Remains for High Schoolers. Read NY Times article below:. September 18, 2008. You Just Can’t Kill It. DON’T know how it happened. It felt more like a gradual, irresistible drift, but in retrospect, it might have been a sudden, overnight conversion. Maybe our local video store rented “The Hunger” one too many times. Secretly I nursed grandiose ideas that my funereal vintage attire aligned me with beatniks, existentialists, Zen Buddhists, French Situationists, 1930s...
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Field Methods: Teens: End Game Schedule
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Friday, March 28, 2008. Good class as usual my anthros: all tattoos will be revealed at the final pot luck lunch (either visually or in words). Tuesday (April 1): Class canceled for Preceptorial advising. I will be in my office from 10-12, then I have a SOCY/ANTH Faculty Program meeting for an hour, and then, back in my office at 1 or so (if you are coming by, let me know). Thursday (April 3): BRUNCH WITH THE ANTHROPOLOGIST: 10:30 G-Wing Cafeteria. Thursday, April 17: Working Groups 3 and 4 (TO DISCUSS S...
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Field Methods: Teens: March 2008
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Friday, March 28, 2008. Good class as usual my anthros: all tattoos will be revealed at the final pot luck lunch (either visually or in words). Tuesday (April 1): Class canceled for Preceptorial advising. I will be in my office from 10-12, then I have a SOCY/ANTH Faculty Program meeting for an hour, and then, back in my office at 1 or so (if you are coming by, let me know). Thursday (April 3): BRUNCH WITH THE ANTHROPOLOGIST: 10:30 G-Wing Cafeteria. Thursday, April 17: Working Groups 3 and 4 (TO DISCUSS S...
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Field Methods: Teens: August 2008
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008. Teenagers Changing Sexual Behavior. Http:/ www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26stat.html? The percentage of high school students in 2007 who had ever had sexual intercourse declined by 12 percent since 1991, the percentage who had had intercourse with four or more partners declined by 20 percent, and the percentage who were currently sexually active declined by 7 percent. At the same time, condom use increased by 33 percent. March 12, 2008. By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN. The tw...
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Field Methods: Teens: 9-12 Is The New Teenager
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Thursday, April 3, 2008. 9-12 Is The New Teenager. The New York Times. April 3, 2008. A Girl’s Life, With Highlights. LEXI JAMES, 11, a sixth grader in Hope Mills, N.C., had been asking for a hair treatment, any hair treatment, ever since her older sister, now 13, first had her hair chemically straightened by her mother three years ago. 8220;Lexi works hard, gets good grades,” her mother said. “I feel like she deserves a treat.”. Most adults want their highlights to look natural, as if they had just come...
