Ethnogrpahy of Newschoolers

volvotom

volvotom

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(Ethnography is a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group. An ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing, the nature of a people.)

What would it include? Possible research opportunities?

Obviously there's the upper-middle/upper-class white males still in High School College. There's the professional ski bums working resorts or other menial occupations to support their hobby. There's the rasta crowd. There's the working adults who slave away at corporate jobs just for the weekend trip to the hill. There's the few females who are outnumbered probably 5 to 1.

But underneath it all there is the enjoyment of skiing.

I'm sure there's more than that. What do you guys think?
 
I wrote a paper on this back in college.

If I was at home I'd post it, but something tells me this thread wont be up for 30 days.
 
I actually searched lexis nexus and jstor and found some interesting stuff about the skier-snowboarder relationship and about the economics of ski area business development but nothing about the life of ski bums or ski devotees. Although I assume there are far more interesting or applicable things to be studied.
 
That's it, and the "rasta" crowd is just a combination of the first two you gave.

There are no real grown up adults, there are no girls.
 
I postulate that a person's education and wisdom are inversely related to the rate at which they post on NS. They start out accumulating posts as a teenager, then as they grow older they realize it's a waste of time and step back as the next generation of starry-eyed skiers fill their place, only to briefly make the occasional lurk one lonely night of drinking in bed.
 
im not a rasta yet... according to my rasta counselor, i only have to smoke 4 more pots and i get accepted into the rastafarian club/party/religion; what ever it is...
 
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