Surveillance & Observations
A kitchen feature that is Lily's go-to for watching people and checking vibes
What is the window?
An interviewed informant described the kitchen as being small enough to create this feeling.
What is closeness?
Even though Lily rarely used it, this structure held major social significance
What is the communal table?
This tiny word became one of the kitchen's most repeated tools for navigation
This behavior allowed me to directly observe students behaviors in real time
What is Participant observation?
Before entering the kitchen, Lily would engage in this behavior to assess comfort level
What is checking the occupancy?
This form of campus organization transformed the kitchen into a cultural cooking and bonding environment
What is a cultural club?/ What is ASA?
This important kitchen structure was left off Lily's Map entirely
What is the refrigerator?
Repeated apologies suggest students were constantly negotiating this.
What is a shared space?
This method helped reveal how students prioritize kitchen structures
What is cognitive mapping?
The open design of the kitchen sometimes created an atmosphere for this behavior/feeling?
What is surveillance?
The kitchen became this type of informal resident support zone
What is a check-in space?
Orlove argues that maps reveal relationships between people, instituitions and ________
What is reality?
Beyond cooking, interviews revealed the kitchen could become a place for this unexpected social process
What is conflict resolution?
This method helped me uncover overlapping categories of kitchen use
What is ethnosemantic interviewing?
This tension emerged when communal environments simultaneously encouraged belonging while producing cautious withdrawal.
What is community and avoidance?
According to Angrosino, maps show what spaces individuals prioritize revealing that they are ________
What is meaningful?
The kitchen map didn't just reveal how things were structured but how it was being used or ignored.
What is lived experience?
Subtle interactions revealed broader patterns of unspoken dorm and campus etiquette
This method employed the use of grand tour and example questions
What is an ethnographic interview?
Although the kitchen offered opportunities for social interaction, some students practiced this behavior by monitoring occupancy before entering.
What is selective avoidance?
This spontaneous kitchen moment transformed cooking into a community when a shared form of theater knowledge revealed an unexpected connection between students
What is singing?
BONUS
BONUS POINT!!
Small and Calarco's framework helped explain social interaction through this concept
What is subjective meaning?
This method helped me analyze architecture and design of kitchen spaces
What is Photographic analysis?