An ethnography of black collegiate sprinters: A formal model of cultural identity and the identity complex
"This is a formal study of social and cultural identity in a population of black collegiate sprinters. I combine the theoretical perspectives of cognitive science and sociocultural anthropology to propose a cognitive model of a system of social relations that will handle effectively the very complicated ways in which being black can figure in being a sprinter. On a methodological level, I propose that a form of ethnography, which I have labeled ""experiential positivism"" (intensive participant observation to the point where the participant observer can at least hope to possess some of a real participant's cognitive understandings and intuitions by which the activity is ordered), can generate the required kinds of empirical data for formulating and testing formalized models of social reality."
Anthropology, Cultural, Education, Physical, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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