Peeling the Onion of Everyday Life

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Peeling the Onion Ethnography and Every-Day
Life
Three Ways of Thinking About Ethnography
Peter Marina, PhD
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Three Ways of Thinking About Ethnography
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Describing the Scene
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Making Sense of it all
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Asking Why?
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Describing the Scene
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THICK Description
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Describing the Scene
WINKS TWITCHES
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Describing the Scene
Maybe its not a RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE,
Maybe its just GAS?
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Making Sense of it all
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Questioning Common Sense Assumptions
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Making Sense of it all
Unusual Explanation Theory
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Making Sense of it all
Unusual Explanation Theory
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Making Sense of it all
Unusual Explanation Theory
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Making Sense of it all
Well, no, my mentors at Brick World Wide told me
I needed spiritual guidance, so they said find a
church to go to. So I was looking. I started
going to different churches in my neighborhood,
because I had people within my organization that
I had sponsored and they were church going and
one particular individual, Andrew, he went to a
church, and I said, you know what, I want to take
a look at your church, because theres something
that Im missing. So I went to his church, then a
week later, I bumped into Theresa on the bus. I
just happened to be in a random place, I just
happened to be on a bus and here she comes. And
(since high school) Id been looking forward to
seeing her for like the last ten years, I just
didnt know how or when it was going to happen,
but deep in my heart I knew it was going to
happen. And so we bumped into each other on the
bus, we started a conversation, we started a
friendship, and things started to progress after
that. The first thing she always used to tell me
is, she would always invite me to church, and
this time I took her up on the invitation.
Finally, after ten years, I took her up on the
invitation.
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Asking Why?
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Manifest Latent Functions An Oldie but Goodie
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Asking Why?
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Asking Why?
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Asking Why?
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Asking Why?

• Functionalist Perspective

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Asking Why?

• Functionalist Perspective
• Marxist Perspective

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Asking Why?

• Functionalist Perspective
• Marxist Perspective
• Conflict Perspective

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Remember the I Function
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Peeling the Onion Ethnography and Every-Day
Life

• Describing the Scene
• Making Sense of it All
• Asking Why

Peter Marina, PhD