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Week #2: Barber Shop

This week I observed the barber shop where I visit often to get me haircut. This barber shop is located in Spokane at the north-town mall. This is very small barber shop compared to some of the others in the mall. The shop only has five barber stations, three of which are rented out stations. The barbers that work in the shop are majority of African American decent with other mixed nationalities. The shop is known for cutting and styling people of all races. The atmosphere in the shop is really relaxed, with r-n-b music playing in the back ground and televisions that are always playing some type of sport game. I happened to come in on a day when basketball was playing on the television throughout the shop, and barbers and customers having conversations about the game and the two teams that were playing the Los Angeles Lakers versus Utah Jazz. I came in while the game was at third quarter, and the Los Angeles was losing by six points.

As I sat there waiting to get my hair cut I noticed the type of customer that came in looking to get a haircut. Several different races came in four African American and one Hispanic male, one mixed individual that came in with his grandmother that was white. Note she seemed very comfortable and carried conversation with all the barbers in the shop that were African American. The body language and the attitude of the grandmother that came in were very laid back. She did not seen intimidated at the fact that she walked into a shop filled with black people. This really surprised me, because I have been in similar situations where almost the same thing happened and he person walked out and did not want to have nothing to do with the individuals in the establishment. This was v...

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Zerubavel notes that this is how we divide reality into islands of meaning, it is an “ideal way to start exploring how we partition out social world” (Page 13). The term chunks or space is an invisible line that divides mental entities. I see this in my observation of what was going in the barber shop: mental distinctions that were broken down to understand the space and the environment in the shop. The symbolic significance of this helps an individual know how to interact and communicate or carry conversation with one other. We also “use differentiation in space to reinforce mental differentiation” when analyzing situations that are more detailed ordinated and more attention needs to be paid to. Zerubavel uses the perfect example, “It is the realization that the definition of our selfhood is at stake that makes us so sensitive to the symbolism” (Page 14).

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