The Simpsons are Cool but Barbie's a Minger - Professor Agnes Nairn
The Simpsons are Cool but Barbie's a Minger - Professor Agnes Nairn
The Simpsons are Cool but Barbie's a Minger - Professor Agnes Nairn
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Each of these ways is exemplified and expanded below:<br />
Resolving Conflict<br />
This use of the middle column to solve a lack of consensus is summed up well by a group of<br />
year 3 girls about X-Box.<br />
Girl 1 Jenny thinks that they should go in the middle <strong>but</strong> we think they should go at<br />
the end so we think it’s fair to put them in the middle<br />
Girl 2 so we’re kind of doing a vote<br />
Year 3, Private School, Girls Group<br />
This sense of cool somehow being a democratic process is illuminated in more depth in the<br />
following quite lengthy exchange about McFly in a Year 3 mixed group.<br />
Boy 1 McFly. <strong>Cool</strong>.<br />
Girl 1 Not cool.<br />
Boy 2 <strong>Cool</strong>.<br />
Boy 1 Ok, that’s three against one. Sorry it’s cool.<br />
Boy 2 Lauren? (asking her to confirm agreement that McFly is cool).<br />
Girl 2 What?<br />
Girl 1 Why don’t we put it in the middle coz some people don’t like it<br />
.<br />
Girl 2 Um that can be kind of more people like it than any body else (indicating,<br />
in fact, yet another point between the middle and the cool side)<br />
Boy 1 Yeah.<br />
Interviewer Ok, so you’re basically down the middle with the things that some people…<br />
Girl 1 Half, half.<br />
Girl 2 <strong>The</strong>y’re kind of 50/50<br />
Year 3, Private School, Mixed Group
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