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[Daniela Ramírez Camacho] Emile Durkheim
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Assignment 3: Interview on the Diversity Weekend Committee
September 21, 2004
Yongho Kim
Ethnographic Interviewing
Assignment 3Interview on the Diversity Weekend Committee
I interviewed a friend, and she really wanted to talk about the Diversity Weekend committee. And although I realized that I knew the microculture too well (if it could be called one), and that it had a short life span (one or two years of members) she insisted on it and I thought it would be prudent to honor my informant’s perspective. I told her not to assume I knew anything of the microculture and imagine I had transferred in from Colorado.. or something.
The interview was done at her house lounge, with friends around, for about 40 minutes. Friends stayed all in the kitchen, however. (No noise factor)
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Assignment 2: Project Proposal
Yongho Kim
Assignment 2: Project Proposal
September 21, 2004
Ethnographic Interviewing -
[Yongho Kim] Marx and Engels
From: “Yongho Kim”
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: Marx NotesSeptember 20, 2004
Yongho KimKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook
- German Ideology is a work that unfolds from the context of the Hegelian/socialist debates in Germany. In it, Marx criticizes idealist reformists such as Max Stirner and Bruno.
- Marx and Engels point out that the world, which belongs to the material, cannot be changed through discussion of ideas about it, but through the actual conditions of it. The term real condition is a term they come back throughout the work.
- Engels develops a revision of history according to its materialist configuration: the tribal ownership with slaves as property and family as a force of production, the city-state in which slavery persists and the community is a unit of production, the feud in which the unit is the feud and the rise aristocracy in opposition to the urban bourgeoisie, and the contemporary situation in which the tensions between the feud and the town classes peaks.
- Marx tries to bridge the material and mental aspects of the man by focusing on his labor as a material condition that determines his consciousness. Because men worked 12 or more hours a day during the early industrial setting in Germany, this argument had strength of proof.
- Marx and Engels point out at the division of labor and the specialization arising thereof as a precondition of the alienation of man and the resulting social oppression. McGee and Warms criticize this perspective by showing that society cannot sustain itself without division of labor.
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[Anna Schwartz] Tylor and Morgan
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Field notes 9/26
Store had a plastic door (I think they changed it this week?) on the entrance. entered the design area and waited for Sarah to finish, which took about 30 extra minutes. it seemed like she was did not have control over time and work schedule, unless she was doing the work because it needed to get done before leaving the design area. there was a manager-looking person who seemed slightly disturbed that a stranger was there staring at things.
standing from Sarah’s bench – there is a washing tub to the left, with old sponge and jabon. I think the sponge doesn’t get used very often, it’s dry. informant used the tub while I was there, though. there are vases on exhibition at shelves to the right of the tub. then there is a door to a small room. to the right of the door is the exit to the clerk, or sales area. there is another bench to the right of the exit. on top of the bench, there is a long flat shelf that has many vases of different shapes and sizes. I thin kthey had size number stickers on them. the shelf extends over the corner to portion of the right wall.
in Sarah’s bench, there are several arrangements with tags hanging on one of their flower tallos. tags have a person’s name, and a code. the code is one letter and one number, I think. these arrangements are all on top of the bench, separated from the “inner” ones which are behind a small thin wall to sarah’s side. to sarah’s side is a phone and a computer (that’s why I thought she was a manager). she occassionally takes phone calls. most of the time she is running to different places, on a short term basis (like going to the next room) to the left, to the left of the tub is a doorless exit to a cubed office space.