Maia: What do you mean by "intersections of gender, sexuality, flirtiness, role-swapping, skirt wearing, age, use of contra network as a social base, use of contra network to find romantic/sexual partners" ?
How can you make or evaluate any meaningful findings about "contra networks" without a comparison to other social networks, dance or othrwise ? Will your use of the "g" word, " god," predispose bias into whatever findings you eventually make ? Once you start saying things to dancers, such as "hey, why don'tyou split up and pair off m/f?" any findings become dubious By considering your self a young hip flashy dancer (whatever that means) will make your doing any objective study difficult. If you have a serious interest in social networks, you should look at the free on-line class currently being offered by Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/networksonline The course is 2/3 over, but you still can register to study all the course materials Michael Fuerst ________________________________ From: Maia McCormick <maia....@gmail.com> To: Caller's discussion list <call...@sharedweight.net> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 6:34 AM Subject: Re: [Callers] Contra Academia? 2013/5/11 Aahz Maruch <a...@pobox.com> > On Sat, May 11, 2013, Maia McCormick wrote: > > > > That's exactly it, though! The variations of expressions of self-identity > > and sexuality within different subsets of contra. Like, I'm really > > interested to look at intersections of gender, sexuality, flirtiness, > > role-swapping, skirt wearing, age, use of contra network as a social > base, > > use of contra network to find romantic/sexual partners... oh my god, > > there's so much to explore! > > One thing to be careful of, by way of personal example: primarily because > of my hearing impairment but also because I have a lot of trouble staying > up late, I tend to think of myself as "of" but not "in" the contra dance > community. So you likely will need to put in extra effort if you want to > find people who are not part of the core communities (i.e on the fringes, > however you measure that). That's a really good point. I mean, one way would be to focus my study only on people who self-identify as being "in" the contra community... but, how would you suggest I go about finding people on the fringes? I feel like my sample size will be kind of biased by who I'm friendly with, which is pretty much the quote unquote 'young hip flashy' dancers (who tend to be super comfortable switching roles, largely queer, considerably poly and sexually liberal, etc.). I also want to find the people who consider themselves "contra community" but feel uncomfortable dancing switch, or might look at a male-male and female-female couple and say "hey, why don't you split up and pair off m/f?" > > Alternate title: How Contradance Can Help Maia Pick Up Chicks. xP > > Before queer contra dance camp, I would have said that a quarter-century > of contra (and IFD and square) had produced zero romantic effect. Now > I'm not sure. ;-> > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 > http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > call...@sharedweight.net > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list call...@sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers
