SCENES •Bolt wars: battle of control over cliffs •Retro bolting: the practice of adding bolts to established climbing routes•People find meaning within particular social worlds Gothic Lolita•Japanese style: dressing up like dolls •not commonHaight-Ashbury •San Francisco •Center of hippie culture (runaways)•bare feet, long hair •shelters, clinics Red Hat Society •celebrate life Doctors Republicans **People spending a lot of time in groups or “scenes”Focus groups•one-time gatherings•diverse or similar •different attitudes toward a subjectFamilies•enduring connections •hard to get rid of Gangs or Friends•together for a whileUrban Geography •groups located in middle of the city Ethnic Neighborhoods•china town •italian americaAge•Sun city AZ - 50 or older, no children Leisure Scenes•clubs•barsSOCIAL WORLDSHoward S. Becker - sociologist or jazz musician - smoked weed - wrote a book called Art Worlds - includes artists- galleries- museums - critics- stores that supply artists- factories- (a whole “world” that supports the artist)Segmentation-civil war reenactors- dress up like civil war soldiers-wanted something more realistic -very specific Hardcore reenactor -committed to authenticity -ate real civil war food“Farbs” - don’t take reenacting seriously - not authentic - over time there is segmentation Barbershop quartet - romanticized vision of the past - Buffalo Bills - old songs - competitions, conferences Vocal Spectrum - modernizing barbershop - look different - different more modern songs- youthTraditionalists recoil- barbershop quartet preservation society- new kids are doing it wrong & they want it to stop LEGITIMATION Mass Society- eventually going to be a society of faceless clones- magazines (targeted toward
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