When Anthropologist Doug Foley Did an Ethnography of a Small

question 20

Multiple Choice

When anthropologist Doug Foley did an ethnography of a small Texas town he found that the everyday stories created around high school football tended to

• A)improve that status of low income families because their boys played football.
• B)reaffirm established ways of thinking and doing things in the town.
• C)encourage young women in the ton to play contact sports.
• D)disrupt popular ideas about social inequality.

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