• He really wants to be in dialogue with prior sociological research, defining terms and then throwing a curveball

Ch. 3 - Code Switching

• Tension between street cred and institutional cred

  • Same for Pastor
• Context collapse has more at stake for the stigmatized
• Whereas prior work suggested that black youth have to choose between street and decent, Lane's work suggests that there's not a clear choice point

Ch. 4 - Pastor

• Whole chapter on one person, high stakes
• Non sequiturs to get youth to accidentally reveal info
• "Machismo, futile" comment from public defender

• Claiming intimacy and distance at the same time

  • Intimacy for authority, distance re: couldn't have done anything to connect Canada and Pastor
• What would it look like done better? Writing? Methods?

• If you're going to write about a group of people, should they be your audience? Should your work be accessible to them?

  • Reciprocity, accountability
• Do other people need to read this book?

• Teach a man to fish: uplift the subjects so they can tell them themselves

  • But it's not the work of social science
• Feedback loop should be considered in methods
• Much more unease in reading this book this year than when it was assigned in previous years

Methods

• Qual top down common in communications

• Qual bottom up common in CMS

  • E.g. "I want to write about QAnon and families," go in and explore and start making sense of it
  • "Grounded theory"
• Walkthrough method: qual content analysis with STS flavor

• Theory

  • Example: parasocial relationships
  • Try to apply it and see if it fits
  • Ground up: those in new domains often have to do
  • But also we don't have to come up with new branded terms and concepts for everything
  • Grad student once asked TL "who do you use?" "I use whoever I need"
• Follow-up: can you tell which method (top down or bottom up) a person used? Should we be able to?