The Second Wave: The Ethnographic Turn

Penelope Eckert (Université de Stanford)
The Second Wave: The Ethnographic Turn

Starting in the eighties, ethnographic studies examined the local categories and practices that underlie and partially explain the macro-social patterns. I will focus on my own work among adolescents in the Detroit suburban area. This study, based on a corpus of over 100 hours of ethnographically collected speech, shows how macro-social patterns are produced and reproduced in social practice at the local and the extra-local level.

Slides (PDF, 4,6 Mo)