Catching gender-Identity production in flight : making the commonplace visible
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01/01/2010
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Resumo |
The purpose of this article is to develop and illustrate an approach for making the commonplace visible in a natural, as opposed to manipulated, social setting. The key research task was to find a way of capturing the ongoing production or enactment of the self that provides some insight into the way in which it is produced in a routine, matter of fact way. The article takes a number of steps to develop a research approach to the task. First, gender-identity was selected as a more specific aspect of self-production. Second, the concept of “flashpoints” was used to refer to a particular moment in the routine which achieves some significance or salience as a result of the participants seizing upon some otherwise unremarkable action or statement and twisting it to their purpose. In this study, the purpose was gender-identity creation. Primary school children in the classroom and their teachers were the participants of the study. Through the use of flashpoints, the article demonstrates how gender-identity production of these children can be caught in flight. The article concludes that this approach can be added to the researcher’s toolkit.<br /> |
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eng |
Publicador |
Athabasca University |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30029093/coulthard-catchinggender-2010.pdf http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/viewArticle/177/180 |
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2010, Athabasca University |
Palavras-Chave | #gender-identity #self-identity #research method #social constructionism |
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Journal Article |