Explain to the remaining 2 students that they will be the Deviants.  One student will buy 2 drinks for their work (furnished by Professor Girdwood; that one person gets in line with the Goffman Group).  That student will buy 2 drinks: one for self and one for the other deviant (reciprocity?).  Make sure both deviants remain separate from each other during the trip.  The other deviant will be instructed to whine and complain loudly on the walk back to class.  For example, that student will not have a free drink and will complain very loudly (so that other students can hear) that it is extremely unfair that 1/3 of the class received free Starbucks.  Example phrases include but are not limited to “This isn’t fair,” “I hate Starbucks,” “This is lame,” “Why did they get free drinks and I don’t,” and so on.  When that deviant returns to class, the other deviant gives them the second free drink for their service!

Girdwood’s four groups of social interaction

• Goffman Group
• Ethnographers
• Putnamists
• Deviants

Please write 2 – 3 pages on the following:

Choose one of Girdwood’s Four Groups of Social Interaction; Write your essay based on the explanation in the bullet points; Only choose one please…

• Deviants
• “Social capital, in short, can be directed toward malevolent, antisocial purposes, just like any other form of capital.  ([Tim] McVeigh also relied on physical capital, like the explosive-laden truck, and human capital, like bomb-making expertise, to achieve his purposes.) (Putnam, 2001)”
• Explain how the deviants were to be compensated for their “evil” work.
• What forms of capital were in play with the deviant group during this in-class exercise?
• Putnamists
• Tocqueville “acknowledged the uniquely democratic claim of individualism, ‘a calm and considered feeling which disposes each citizen to isolate himself from the mass of his fellows and withdraw into the circle of family and friends; with this little society formed to his taste, he gladly leaves the greater society to look after itself” (Putnam, 2001).
• Explain how individuals separated themselves from the group in isolation
• How did this affect the expressions of embarrassment?
• Were those in isolation generally more or less embarrassed than those embedded in the group?  How so?
• Ethnographers
• “As a qualitative research method and product, ethnography can be distinguished from three other ways of investigating and writing: quantitative research, public policy research, and journalism” (Penn Anthropology, n.d.).
• How is ethnography different than quantitative research and journalism?
• What distinguishes ethnography, qualitative research, and sociology from other disciplines?
• Goffman Group
• “We find that some occasion of embarrassment are sustained at the same level throughout the encounter, beginning when the interaction begins and lasting until the encounter is terminated.  The participants speak of an uncomfortable or uneasy situation, not of an embarrassing incident” (Goffman & Best, 2005).
• “Autoethnography refers to ethnographic research, writing, story, and method that connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political.  In autoethnography, the life of the researcher becomes a conscious part of what is studied” (Given, 2008).
• Write an autoethnography regarding your experience in this exercise

Assignment requirements:

• You must include an explanation of your Girdwood Group of Social Interaction, i.e. what it means to be a deviant or who was Putnam
• You must include a definition of qualitative research
• You must include reference to two different types of qualitative research (e.g. ethnography versus interviews)
• You must develop your own “Theory of Starbucks”

This is how I will grade your essay:

• During the class, you will give your paper to your neighbor/peer to read
• Neighbor will grade using the following criteria:
• 1 point for including an explanation of your Girdwood Group of Social Interaction; examples are:
• What it means to be a deviant
• Who was Putnam
• Who was Goffman
• What is ethnography
• 1 point for a definition of qualitative research
• 1 point for referring to two different types of qualitative research (e.g. ethnography versus interviews)
• 1 point for developing a “Theory of Starbucks”
• 1 point for the section headings: 
• Social Interaction;
  
• ["Deviance" or "Putnam" or "Goffman" or whatever your chosen bullet point was];
  
• Qualitative Research;
  
• Theory of Starbucks

Sources used in this course include, but are not limited to, the following:

Alternate Option