Museums and Art-galleries do not simply admit visitors; they actively seek to produce certain sorts of visitors.   During this report, I will be discussing how museums and art galleries are not simply public institutions but are socially constructed in order to shape and produce certain conformist and acceptable visitors. I will use sociological theory... Continue Reading →

To what extent is the city of Lincoln's status as a tourist destination the effect of 'learnt ways of seeing'? How is the tourist gaze presented by organisers, and then consumed by tourists?   During this report, I shall be discussing the findings from a field study of the application and consumption of the tourist... Continue Reading →

Pursue an ethnography of a locale/shop of your choice within Lincoln town centre. In what way is that locale/shop “dis-embedded” from its local surroundings? And in what ways is it then “re-embedded” within various national/international/global flows?   In this report, I will be using the global franchise restaurant, McDonald's, to pursue a detailed ethnography. Including... Continue Reading →

To what extent does Lincoln Castle prison embody, in microcosm, the “panoptic” model of surveillance that Foucault (1977) saw as central to the organisation of modern societies?   The purpose of this report is to analyse the similarities between the organisation and structure of both the Lincoln castle prison and Foucault's (1977) panoptic model. I... Continue Reading →