Wednesday, December 06, 2006

School update

So, we finally figured out what the big paper will be about: Lindsay Lohan. Ok, so not really.

I'm taking social psychology (that would be micro sociology, not group psychology - there's a world of difference) and there's this paper due in january that should be about... uhm, 25 pages or something. I had gotten the impression that there were a bunch of limitations on it, but in the end there were only two: We have to pick a scientific method from a short list, and the whole group (three people) have to agree on the subject. So. We're doing a discourse analysis (incredibly clever and post structuralist) on how teenagers are portrayed in the Tina Fey/Lindsay Lohan comedy Mean Girls plus in Queen Bees and Wannabes (the parenting guide book it was based on). The idea is basically to make a little chart of all the assumptions popular psychology makes about teenagers, and hopefully come up with som dastardly clever theory about it. In OTHER words: I get to watch DVDs all winter for school - admittedly the same DVD over and over again, but who's counting, right?

Anyway, I'll convince the others in the group to write the abstract in english so I can post it here. I'm sure it'll be fascinating stuff...

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