Your third journal assignment covers the following readings:
- Roberts – Chapter 8 (Blumer)
- Roberts – Chapter 9 (Foucault)
- Hall – Race: The Floating Signifier
- Roberts – Chapter 10 (Bourdieu)
You are expected to give a brief summary of each reading, addressing each author’s key ideas and concepts. Tell me what the author is trying to communicate. What’s the main takeaway? Finally, what can you say about the collection of readings? Can you make sense of the four readings as a group? What do they say collectively?
Successful journals will be approximately 4-5 double spaced pages in length. They will correctly identify the key ideas in each reading, and finally synthesize the readings into one coherent statement about American Sports & Leisure. The use of outside examples to clarify and illustrate your final argument about the readings is very helpful.
reading link:
“Symbolic Interactionism” Roberts – Chapter 8
Watch David Zirin’s “Not Just a Game”
“Epistemes & Discourses”Roberts – Chapter 9
Williamson – “Gay and Gutsy on the Rugby Field”
http://narrative.ly/gay-and-gutsy-on-the-rugby-field/
“Race: The Floating Signifier”
http://www.mediaed.org/transcripts/Stuart-Hall-Race-the-Floating-Signifier-Transcript.pdf
