1 Readings
Davis (1959): Cab driver and his fare – facets of a fleeting relationship Method: Notes and observations made by researcher over a six-‐period in 1948 when he worked as a cabdriver for one of the largest taxicab firms in Chicago.
• Brief contacts with unrelated person of whom he has no foreknowledge, just as they have none of him, and whom he is not likely to encounter again.
• Low social status as he can not be distinguished from his clients in task-‐relevant competence • Act merely as an extension of the car, although he is acutely aware of what is going on. • Categorize customers: The sport, the Lady Shopper, The Businessman, Live Ones • Tip is vital – ways for making people tip more (making change, the had-‐luck story, fictitious charges
Becker (1953): Becoming a Marihuana User Method: 50 interviews with marihuana users Result: People will start enjoying marihuana when (1) learns to smoke it in a way that will produce real effects, (2) learn to recognize the effects and connect them with drug use, and (3) learns to enjoy the sensations he perceives.
• Indented quotes from interviewees
Blumer: Society as Symbolic Interaction Symbolic Interaction – refers to the preculiar and distinctive character of interaction as it takes place between human beings. The peculiarity consists in the
• Brief contacts with unrelated person of whom he has no foreknowledge, just as they have none of him, and whom he is not likely to encounter again.
• Low social status as he can not be distinguished from his clients in task-‐relevant competence • Act merely as an extension of the car, although he is acutely aware of what is going on. • Categorize customers: The sport, the Lady Shopper, The Businessman, Live Ones • Tip is vital – ways for making people tip more (making change, the had-‐luck story, fictitious charges
Becker (1953): Becoming a Marihuana User Method: 50 interviews with marihuana users Result: People will start enjoying marihuana when (1) learns to smoke it in a way that will produce real effects, (2) learn to recognize the effects and connect them with drug use, and (3) learns to enjoy the sensations he perceives.
• Indented quotes from interviewees
Blumer: Society as Symbolic Interaction Symbolic Interaction – refers to the preculiar and distinctive character of interaction as it takes place between human beings. The peculiarity consists in the