In other words, knowing what a genre is used for can help people to accomplish goals, whether that goal be getting a job by knowing how to write a stellar resume, winning a person’s heart by writing a roman-tic love letter, or getting into college by writing an effective personal statement.
This can also be limiting for example, if a person was to make a song and some one's interpretation deemed that it belongs in the "Hip Hop" category, that would exclude it from other categories.
In other words, Bitzer is saying that when something new hap-pens that requires a response, someone must create that first response. Then when that situation happens again, another person uses the first response as a basis for the second, and eventually everyone who en-counters this situation is basing his/her response on the previous ones, resulting in the creation of a new genre.
So is "genre" just used for organizational purposes?
From day to day, year to year, comparable situations occur, prompting comparable responses; hence rhetorical forms are born and a special vocabu-lary, grammar, and style are established.
Is it possible that this "special vocabulary" could negatively affect the product by being limiting?
Would it still be a country song?
Music is a creative thing, one person's interpretation of "Country" genre may be different from another person's. Genres, I think, are just labels that help with organization but they shouldn't dictate the music itself as that would be severely limiting to music.
Social movements are not merely reconfigured networks and redeployed resources.
The concept of a social movement being "...reconfigured networks and redeployed resources." is interesting to me. I imagine something like that happens when a movement is misguided. I could be wrong though.
Hurried negotiations produced recognition of the farm workers union, substantial immediate improvements in wages and working conditions, and the first real union contract in California farm labor history.
Did they get everything they asked for? Was what they asked for directly related to their jobs?
I’ve tried to show how story telling can develop agency, reformulate identity, and afford access to the motivational resources to form a leadership group, found a new organization, and launch a new social movement.
Can this story/resource be adapted or is it applicable to the current events taking place in Hawaii?
Organizers proposed Asociación -- not union -- to avoid turning away workers with negative experience of earlier unionization attempts or provoking premature reaction from the growers.
A very smart and deliberate move as many underrepresented people may not want to "make waves"
but modeled on CSO meetings
This reminded me of the contact zones we have been studying. Chavez is leading people who were rejected from the CSO yet he is using a system that he believes works but is in the Spanish language. This is making the statement that the main focus is Spanish speaking people, the underrepresented.
Sadly social movement scholars in the political process tradition have largely ignored the interpretive work of story telling, focusing instead on more structural matters of resources and opportunities.
Why is it that social movements scholars mostly ignored the interpretive work of story telling save for framing which is "The one aspect of interpretive work social movement scholars have investigated..."?
satsomewhereunread
Why do you think this is?
Infigure1,forinstance,Adamisdepictedontheleft-handsidebelowthesun,whileEveisontheright-handsidebelowthemoon,andslightlylowerthanAdam.ThetwoaredividedbythediagonalofAdamsdiggingstick.InAndeanspatialsymbolism,thediagonaldescendingfromthesunmarksthebasiclineofpowerandauthoritydividingupperfromlower,malefromfemale,dominantfromsubordinate.Infigure2,theIncaappearsinthesamepositionasAdam,withtheSpaniardopposite,andthetwoatthesameheight.Infigure3,depictingSpanishabusesofpower,thesymbolicpatternisreversed.TheSpaniardisinahighpositionindicatingdominance,butonthe"wrong"(right-hand)side.Thediagonalsofhislanceandthatoftheservantdoingthefloggingmarkoutalineofillegitimate,thoughreal,power.TheAndeanfigurescontinuetooccupytheleft-handsideofthepicture,butclearlyasvictims.GuamanPomawrotethattheSpanishconquesthadproduced"unmundoalreves,""aworldinreverse."
An excellent example of religious art that was produced from a "Contact Zone" Do you think that any Spanish person picked up on this?
atextinwhichpeopleundertaketodescribethemselvesinwaysthatengagewithrepresentationsothershavemadeofthem
Interesting, I don't think it has to be limited to text though. It reminds me of that metal disk that humans sent out into space in the 70's which have all kind of information on it about humanity just in case it was intercepted by an intelligent alien species.
HemayhaveworkedintheSpanishcolonialadministrationasaninterpreter,scribe,orassistanttoaSpanishtaxcollector--asamediator
This information must have been taken from the context of the manuscript. The evidence would be in things like "...mixture of Quechua and ungrammatical, expressive Spanish..." mentioned earlier
conquestandempire
Just like the contact zone described in the previous paragraph
CarlYastremski
Muchofhissocialliferevolvedaroundtradingthem
She is describing how he learned a lot about many aspect of life through baseball cards.