What are the details of our daily existence? What systems dominate our lives? What meanings can we make of our situation?

This social studies/humanities course will steal from various disciplines - including anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, economics, futurology, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology - to help us make sense of our situation.

A major goal of the course will be to focus your attention on your own life. Together we will investigate major systems that create and rule our lives including capitalism, school, family, popular culture, and the US government. And we will figure out how to interpret our lives, and these systems, and the collision of our lives and these systems.

We will detour into the future and the past but our journey will be primarily contemporary.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Hair Resources

Hair and tattoos provide examples of the physical embodiment of positional images of cool. In other words they physically signify the specific "who" of the heroic personal narrative and also claim a certain audience for attention, approval, and connection (and another audience for defiance, controversy, etc.).

Hair chapter from the Body Social. Password protected with the four letter name of the unit.
NYT article about 4 year old suspended for long hair
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