Field Work Case Study Peterson

Fieldwork challenges are salient in both of Mendoza (2008) and Peterson (2011), as both of them have worked with the youth and in classroom setting, and deconstructed presuppositions that both had or encountered. What is interesting, and perhaps related to my situation, is that Mendoza was categorized as doing “auto-ethnography”, which is in my case critical, and thus not showcasing my optionality will be detrimental to my research. Starting with a surface deconstruction of the sign system used to differentiate different groups, and then moving on to elaborate proved to be beneficial in facilitating not just the understanding of the complexities but in offering a two faced theoretical frameworks in presenting these peculiarities pertaining …show more content…
In addition, to that she makes the case of how the main stream society constructed the gang image through public records and societal discourse. By doing so, other aspects that were neglected or ignored in the past arose, to offer a novel reading of the gang life beyond criminology. To transcend that level of analysis, (Mendoza 2008) demonstrate how hemispheric localism as a concept can yield an ingenuous tool to comprehend the binary of the Norte and Sur. It connects the local to the global, hence the borderland is no longer the sole defining feature of this distinction. The previous notion of neighborhood as the focal point in the making of gangs proved to be limited and false, as they are multilayer of markers including linguistic, racial and economic to name few in establishing a criterion that is based on an elaborate system of …show more content…
It is rather attained by working towards reaching a certain level of living-standards and not bestowed upon vertically. Identity construction is a complex process that cannot be reduced to consumption or attitude, but to include the entirety of the meaning system that different factor offers. Moreover, generational identity must be taken into consideration to establish a scale in measuring variation and change within the family unite. Print as a source in forming identity is significant depending on the readership size in order for the print to infiltrate, which is not clear in Peterson (2011). The dichotomy between print that is intended for a middleclass audience and other intended for an elite make the distinction between a global affiliation in the latter and local in the prior, yet this observation dose not take into account the interconnectedness of these two segments through other factors and consumption avenues such as Egyptian trendy drama, national literature, and public