-- What kinds of evidence or data did the authors use?
“Friday Night at Iowa 80” – This author uses a lot of interviewing
“House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat” – This essay draws in a lot of personal experiences
-- What kinds of research did the authors do?
“Friday Night at Iowa 80” – Again, Rick conducted a lot of interviews for research but the essay also says he read some books about his topic.
“House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat” – There is one rather informal interview in this essay but it mostly consists of small amounts of personal observation
-- Why is each group a subculture? Does the author convince you that they are each subcultures?
“Friday Night at Iowa 80” – In this essay, I believe that the particular subculture(s) Rick is talking about are truckers. I think these people make up their own subculture because they most definitely have a “ritual” that they do on a regular basis (driving long distances).
“House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat” – This subculture consists of homeless people and people who are having a hard time “making it” in the world. I’m defiantly convinced that these people form a subculture because of the hardships and things they have to go through on a daily basis.
-- After reading the essay, do you understand what it would be like to be a member of this subculture?
“Friday Night at Iowa 80” – Yes, because Rick goes into so much detail not only about the people in this subculture but also about the places they go and the things they do.
“House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat” – I’m not sure I exactly “understand” simply because my life is so different from the lives of the people in the essay. However, the essay does do an excellent job of description and explanation of the subculture.
-- What are the strengths and weaknesses of the essays?
“Friday Night at Iowa 80” – I think a major strength of this essay is its clarity and separation of subtopics with the headers in bold. It is hard to find a weakness in this work, but I am not particularly interested in this topic so would say that it would sometimes talk about a story or subtopic for longer than help my interest.
“House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat” – I feel that the main strength and weakness I have for this essay are the same; personal stories. I believe that it is always good to use a lot of “I” statements but at the same time, I think this author used to many and not enough of what she researched/studied.
-- After reading both examples, what ideas or questions do you have about completing your own ethnographic research project?
Well, both of these papers have subtopics (as shown by their bold headings) and I have never written any kind of paper/essay where these were needed so one question I would have would be about the outline of the paper itself? Another question I need to ask myself is how I am going to separate my paper into these subtopic? Or, if I chose to only divide them by paragraph, then what are my main points?
-Julia St. John
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