Personal Space
My project is about personal space. It is about finding out why people
tend to have their own personal space. Personal space is the region
surrounding a person. Each individual has their own personal space.
Distance from strangers varies than distance from families and
relatives. Method used will be participant observation which is a
qualitative method. It is one of the most popular and widely used
research methods. The main advantages of participant observation is
that it allows you to have an insight on how the individuals of a
society perform and the ways in which they think and why.
I chose to investigate into this area because this topic is quite of a
challenge. The main advantages of participant observation are that it
allows the anthropologists to obtain a deeper and more experienced
insight on the activities that the individuals of a society perform
and the ways in which they think and that it also allows the
anthropologists to gain a good overview of how and why a society
functions. The disadvantages of participant observation are that it is
sometimes unwelcome by the society being studied, as they often feel
disturbed and that the anthropologist is invading their privacy. It is
also often difficult for the ethnographer to go native, and, even when
he does; problems arise as he may begin to lose objectivity after
becoming too much a part of that society. The problems that can arise
due to Participant observation include:
· Gender - certain genders are more welcome than others into different
societies. Women can be seen as inferior/ be threatening to men/ can’t
integrate w/ men.
· Ethnicity- ethnogra...
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...lse to sit. People who are usually crowded have a smaller
personal space than those not used to crowded places.
The personal space is not due to a case of bad breath or body odor,
but because closeness leads a sense of intimacy that is at odds with
their relationship to the other individual. In conclusion:
* The personal space is larger if you are talking to a stranger.
* The better you know the person you're talking to, the smaller the
space may be.
* The personal space is usually larger for two men than for two
women.
* The personal space may be very small for a man and a woman if they
are in a relationship.
* The personal space may be larger than normal for a man and a woman
who are strangers to each other.
* The personal space size may differ for different cultures.
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The culture of the gym is slowly coming together just after two days of observations. The gym is primarily a male dominant place to do but in our college the only area that is completely dominant is the weight lifting area and that’s only during prime hours. Also on the note of personal space there is noticeably a tendency for both male and female to have a certain amount of space around them like a personal bubble.
Truth: Both of my roommates debunked this myth quickly. They told me upfront that they like things “clean and neat,” which is always a good thing.
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other people! How do you think it looks: you all the time in a man’s room?” (2,4). For a
...stics of males and females. For this reason, women and men are greatly influenced by difference perspective.
Chuck Wendig has said writing the middle of a novel is the hardest task. He calls it the mushy middle. Others call it the sagging middle. Liminality are the in-between moments. It is often an interval of tribulation, of halt and alteration. Your old habits, beliefs and even personal identity deteriorates. In that moment of liminality, you have the chance to become someone new. Liminal space is the middle of every great story. In movies, it is the period you find that there is a twist in the plot. Change happens through liminal space, which is the period of alteration and transformation. The word, liminal means “threshold”. It can relate to a transition from childhood to adulthood, the time between wounded and healing, the transition from life to death. From personal experience, I can say I went through a period of liminality. Liminality to me included me transitioning from one culture to another. The period between the end of high school and the beginning of college was a liminal space for me. For me, this liminality involved me moving away from home to another country to study. It involved me breaking ties with friends, saying our goodbyes and also involved a period of transformation. This experience has transformed me into the independent, self reliant person I am today.
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It is fairly clear to the reader that the man and woman's ideas of a happy future are not the same. ...
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