so I naively asked one of my
participants
why do you street race and he shakes his
head and he said that’s like asking why
do you read people like different things
people always look down on racers
because they don’t understand the
culture it is my job today to help you
all understand the culture of the Las
Vegas streetcar scene through
participant observations at car meets 12
semi-structured interviews and a content
analysis of online forums all coated
with grounded theory I was able to come
up with four findings to help understand
the culture and practices of the Las
Vegas streetcar scene in order to
understand the importance of scenes in
cities first I found out that not a lot
of the individuals are part of the car
scene street race in fact most of them
use the scene as a way to connect with
like-minded individuals and as a way to
escape their mundane day-to-day
activities I was speaking with a member
of the scene when he said we’re not in
high school anymore so it’s really hard
to find people who like the same thing
and a car scene does that for us
next I found out that these individuals
have a strong faithful respect for their
scenes rules often on their fliers
you’ll see the phrase respect a lot or
respect the spot this means no burnouts
no rev outs basically don’t do anything
that made your all attention to the
police
if this happens some of the members will
attempt to take a picture of the
perpetrator posted on their online
forums and essentially blacklist them
from events a frustrated individual was
talking about this when he said for some
of us this scene is more than just car
meets it’s a family this leads to my
next finding which is that there are
strong familial bonds within the scene
members of the scene who are mostly men
will often address each other as brother
they’ll bring their families and their
pets to events and when a member of the
scene passes away they have a
candlelight vigil or their host a car
wash and various other events to make
sure that money for the funeral is taken
care of finally these individuals form
deep connections with their cars they
spend a lot of time and money
really personalizing their vehicles to
personify themselves I spoke with a
member of the scene and I asked him to
describe the relationship he had with
his car and he smiled and he said my car
keeps me out of trouble it takes care of
me and I take care of it
the car is an extension of us so this
scene really helps provide a sense of
community in a city where community is
often assumed to be vacant and my
research helps expand urban sociological
scholarship by showing that scenes can
serve as a communal proxy in large
cosmopolitan cities now my presentation
may seem a little short but if I get at
least one individual just one to
understand the culture of the Las Vegas
streetcar scene then I did my job
thank you [Applause]
participants
why do you street race and he shakes his
head and he said that’s like asking why
do you read people like different things
people always look down on racers
because they don’t understand the
culture it is my job today to help you
all understand the culture of the Las
Vegas streetcar scene through
participant observations at car meets 12
semi-structured interviews and a content
analysis of online forums all coated
with grounded theory I was able to come
up with four findings to help understand
the culture and practices of the Las
Vegas streetcar scene in order to
understand the importance of scenes in
cities first I found out that not a lot
of the individuals are part of the car
scene street race in fact most of them
use the scene as a way to connect with
like-minded individuals and as a way to
escape their mundane day-to-day
activities I was speaking with a member
of the scene when he said we’re not in
high school anymore so it’s really hard
to find people who like the same thing
and a car scene does that for us
next I found out that these individuals
have a strong faithful respect for their
scenes rules often on their fliers
you’ll see the phrase respect a lot or
respect the spot this means no burnouts
no rev outs basically don’t do anything
that made your all attention to the
police
if this happens some of the members will
attempt to take a picture of the
perpetrator posted on their online
forums and essentially blacklist them
from events a frustrated individual was
talking about this when he said for some
of us this scene is more than just car
meets it’s a family this leads to my
next finding which is that there are
strong familial bonds within the scene
members of the scene who are mostly men
will often address each other as brother
they’ll bring their families and their
pets to events and when a member of the
scene passes away they have a
candlelight vigil or their host a car
wash and various other events to make
sure that money for the funeral is taken
care of finally these individuals form
deep connections with their cars they
spend a lot of time and money
really personalizing their vehicles to
personify themselves I spoke with a
member of the scene and I asked him to
describe the relationship he had with
his car and he smiled and he said my car
keeps me out of trouble it takes care of
me and I take care of it
the car is an extension of us so this
scene really helps provide a sense of
community in a city where community is
often assumed to be vacant and my
research helps expand urban sociological
scholarship by showing that scenes can
serve as a communal proxy in large
cosmopolitan cities now my presentation
may seem a little short but if I get at
least one individual just one to
understand the culture of the Las Vegas
streetcar scene then I did my job
thank you [Applause]
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