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This week, Kayli and I worked to define our methodology and project summary. \u00a0We met twice to discuss our project and plan our schedule. We have also been communicating with each other over Facebook and a google folder. \u00a0We have been sending each other articles that we find relevant. I have actually found a good deal of articles, that pop up on my Facebook timeline, to be relevant to our research. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are really trying to be conscious of how to make our documentary feel like sociological research. \u00a0One thing I have been focusing on is the literature review. I have been reading Georg Simmel\u2019s piece on fashion, which I think will be a strong source to root our argument. \u00a0Simmel focuses on fashion as a construct of the elite, however we are looking at how the non-elite are now influencing elite fashion and staying ahead of the game. We will integrate this piece through quotes that are either visually portrayed or audio. I also reached out to Professor Devgan, and she has agreed to allow us to film her speaking about sociology and fashion. \u00a0This will be a way for us to visually represent our literature review. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have been reaching out to my peers and instagram celebrities via social media. \u00a0I have still not had success with instagram celebrities. I have scheduled three interviews with my peers. \u00a0We attempted to schedule an interview for this week, but everyone we reached out to, wanted a little more time. \u00a0It is really important to us that this documentary does not attempt to represent Bowdoin fashion culture. Unlike other schools, Bowdoin does not have a particularly vibrant \u201cnormcore\u201d community. \u00a0We are selecting peers that seem to embrace the aesthetic, but Bowdoin as a space is potentially limiting. Our peers are also on the younger side of the millennial age range. I hope that we are able to find people outside of the Bowdoin \u201cbubble,\u201d that are slightly older, and willing to be interviewed. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have told those that we will interview, the premise of our research. \u00a0Our topic is complex, and we want to give people a chance to think about it. \u00a0I asked for those that we are interviewing to send us the outfit they will wear beforehand, or describe their fashion. \u00a0We are going to try to select locations and plan shots according to the essence of each subject\u2019s style. Although our creativity will not be objective, this will utilize the strengths of film as a medium, and how we are able to represent our subjects. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are going to send everyone our interview questions before the interviews. I have been working on writing the interview protocol. \u00a0It is tricky to make sure that none of our questions are leading, because we do want our subjects to talk about race, class, and gender in relation to fashion, but we do not want to push connections that might not actually be there. \u00a0I think it will be useful to potentially leave the audio of the interviewer asking the questions, in the film. This way, viewers can transparently hear how the questions were posed. We have been thinking and talking a lot about the potential power that film has in illuminating researcher positionality. \u00a0Ideally, viewers will be able to see and hear our biases as researchers. Next week, we will conduct at least three interviews, and continue our research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, Kayli and I worked to define our methodology and project summary. \u00a0We met twice to discuss our project and plan our schedule. We have also been communicating with each other over Facebook and a google folder. \u00a0We have been sending each other articles that we find relevant. I have actually found a good … Continue reading “Log 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/sociology-3010-spring-2018-hhornbec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}