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Authoring Social Responsibility

University of West Florida

Gayle A. Juneau

University of West Florida

To better understand how researchers author social responsibility, the authors closelyexamined the "privileged" language in Mitchell Duneier's and Carol Stack'sethnographic texts and the ways that they transformed their positions withoutdecentering the voices of those living in poor communities. The authors then describehow these texts consider a new ethnographic sensibility for economic injustice that forcesethnographers to assume responsibilities for intersecting social class with all otheroppressive structures. This ethnographic sensibility involves ethnographers writingtexts that broaden and transform standpoints of economically privileged persons livingand working in our local communities. That is, when ethnographers position their textsfrom a social class standpoint, they automatically change the dimensions of how individualsinterrupt and explain race, gender, and other social injustices. The authors proposethat to better understand hierarchical structures that dominate society in today's world,ethnographers must responsibly position their texts from this standpoint. Specifically,the language of the text visibly indicates the ethnographers understood (a) that theyentered a field to work with their participants to transform public consciousness, (b) howto participate in an environment where people live on the social sidelines, and (c) theirresponsibility in writing a reflexive text from an antihegemonic standpoint that identifiesthe strengths and struggles of the participants.

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