Week 10

I plan on structuring my mini-ethnography by first telling them my interest within the subculture and my place within it. After letting my readers know my interest I will then talk about some of the stereotypical ideas that are sometimes thought about cheerleaders. Then I will take each different stereotypical thinking and try to give an explanation to each of them from my research and from my observations. In my conclusions I hope to give people a better view of cheerleaders and let them know that just because there might be a few bad apples doesn't mean that cheerleaders as a whole are bad. I believe that this structure seems very organized and will be easy for my readers to follow. I am basically listing some stereotypical ideas and then throughout the rest of the paper giving explanation to each of them, because I want my readers to get a better idea of cheerleaders and then let them make their own opinions about them. My paper will leave people with the truth behind cheerleaders and then people will have the right to make an opinion about cheerleaders with really knowing something about them.

my relationship in this subculture is just being an insider to it. I have developed a better understanding because within the subculture I have developed relationships with fellow team members and have got a better understanding of each opinion. With my mini ethnography I want to stand some what outside of my subculture and get a new view from a different perspective. 

The meaning behind are words a very similar to my own. With being an insider it influence my own fixed positions of the subculture because I feel like the subculture has very little faults. My informant and I are good friends and cheerleading and this year we are both struggling on wether we should try out this year or not. We both enjoy cheerleading, but feel it may take up to much time with our studies.My informant speaks with confidence about her feelings and is not afraid to express them.

The hardest thing from my research has probably been trying to step out of my own subculture and looking at through the eyes of an outsider. The easiest thing was already knowing some of the rules and regulations that come with cheerleading. If I started over I would do an interview with an outsider and get their perspective and understand it so that I can give them explanation. I think that keeping a blog has helped because it has lead me to think ahead with my writing and it has been very beneficial to me. I think that it will help me in many ways with preparing my mini-ethnography because many of these blog posting help in determining what is going to be placed into them.

Week 8

The main theme that I am noticing in my subculture is that I am trying to give people the truth about cheerleaders. My theme tries to get outsiders to understand that cheerleaders are not always the snobby, ditzy, preppy girls that some may think they are. I plan on focusing on all the skill and talent it takes to be a cheerleader. The field-site has a lot to do with the theme because there are some physical things that appear in them to give people some of their perceptions. My thoughts on my subculture have not really changed, but I have discovered why people easily get some these perceptions about cheerleaders. I have come to discover that not all cheerleaders are sweet and innocent, but its not only just cheerleaders. It can be other people that give the vibe as not being so innocent and it could reflect upon their own subculture giving people these perspectives. I have learned to keep an open mind to people opinions and ask why and then understand it.