HOLLYWOOD GOES TO HIGH SCHOOLUsing Movies to Make Sense of Society

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND ANALYSISSYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM - MICROSOCIOLOGY

• Purpose: Understanding - Seeks to understand people’s interpretations.

• Reality: Dynamic - Reality changes with changes in people’s perceptions.

• Viewpoint: Insider - Reality is what people perceive it to be.

• Values: Value bound - Values will have an impact and should be understood and taken into account when conducting and reporting research.

• Focus: Holistic - A total or complete picture is sought.

• Orientation: Discovery - Theories and hypotheses are evolved from data as collected.

• Data: Subjective - Data are perceptions of the people in the environment.

• Instrumentation: Human - The human person is the primary collection instrument.

• Conditions: Naturalistic - Investigations are conducted under natural conditions.

• Results: Valid - The focus is on design and procedures to gain "real," "rich," and "deep" data.

 

 RESEARCH METHODS IN CONTEXT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW9N34LH7KQ

AS A QUALITATIVE SOCIAL RESEARCHER ROBERT BULMAN ARGUES..

• That films are complex cultural processes of production and consumption that involve the artistic creators of film, the studios that market them and to the

audience that consumes them.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeUyAnrffCw

FILMS REFLECT THE OFTEN CONTRADICTORY NOTIONS OF VALUES, NORMS, BELIEFS AND FEARS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aUPzR37YiA

THAT MOVIES MAY REFLECT VARYING CLASS INTERESTS

THAT ARE OFTEN IN CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-nYl-iZKyg

THAT FILMS BOTH REFLECT AND SHAPE CULTURE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-X2XzKqBiE

FILM GENRES REFLECT A STRATIFIED SOCIETY

Urban high school films represent the fantasies that suburban middle-class Americans have about life in urban high schools and the ease in which the

problems can be rectified by teacher – heroes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJzM27arlE

FILM GENRES REFLECT QUESTS FOR IDENTITY

Suburban high school films care less about academic success and focus on social identity, social status and popularity through counter culture or non

conformity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS0KyTZ3Ie4

FILM GENRES REFLECT SOCIAL CLASS AND ITS BURDENS

Elite private school films emphasize the burden of academic achievement as a means of protecting their social class and that following the heart is often more important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0gHibeHfdA

URBAN HIGH SCHOOL FILMS CENTRAL THEME“UTILITARIAN INDIVIDUALISM”

High School High

Lean On Me Dangerous Minds

SUBURBAN SCHOOL FILMS CENTRAL THEME

“EXPRESSIVE INDIVIDUALISM”

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

The New Guy

PRIVATE SCHOOL FILMS CENTRAL THEME“EXPRESSIVE AND UTILITARIAN

INDIVIDUALISM COEXIST”

Making The Grade Rushmore School Ties