For my subgroup project, I decided to observe a group of teenage boys. Located at the intersection of Fullerton and central. The location seemed like any other McDonalds except the arrangement of the sits. They have a wide range of chairs and furniture located in the side of the entrance while the front part was wide. My subgroup was located in the side of the McDonalds near the restrooms. The methods I used were participant observation, informal interviewing, and formal interviewing. While I conducted my observations on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On October 8, 2013 from 3pm to 4:30pm, October 15 2013 from 3pm to 4:30pm, October 17 2013 from 3pm to 6pm and October 22 2013 from 3 to 6pm. My data collections used were participant observation, informal interviewing, formal interviewing, key consultants, and mapping.
During my interactions with my subgroup I noticed several patterns which distinguished them from everyone else in the McDonalds. For instance the subgroup consists of only male participants. There were no women participating in the practice. When I asked my consultant about why that was he answered “cus girls make too much noise and they got a different part it’s like they go for elders and we do it for the kids. We all get together later. It’s all the same kinda...but there on the other side of the building” as I observe and they got into the topic an informal interview took place one of the members stated that “girls now see more competition in guys and they can’t handle them when they bring the jam” everyone agreed and laughed.
Later would occur such as the members having different set of index cards with labels. At sight it resembled regular note taking, however up close a rather interesting method emerge. It had thr...
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...bout me and why I was there not accepting it as a school project. Once I started observing them they created a negative view they saw me as rather an outcast who didn't fit in. They believe I belong to a rival group which only wanted to see their new leading play. They were hostile and would at time avoid me. As if I was their enemy. I felt awkward and lonely they didn't present the information I needed they didn't want to corporate. At first I didn't know how to deal with their lack of corporation until I participated in a practice I enter their comfort zone and I pointed out ideas in which they needed help. That was my first step yet they still didn’t have trust in me. Therefore, I played a long and would at times read their plays and gave them a live tone in order to have a longer conversation. I later on got closer to them and was allowed to sit in their table.
Throughout the prominent television series, also known as Friends, the writers carefully included and manipulated many sociological concepts. The writers of the series incorporated such concepts that many watchers hardly noticed that they were in the episodes. A few concepts weaved into the television series included an ingroup, culture, the social learning theory, and leadership styles. The Friends characters often learned from each other throughout the series through some sociological concepts.
Methods include the research relationship with the people studied, site selection and sampling decisions, data collection methods, and data analysis techniques.
Bars and nightclubs are social entities that are designed for entertainment and they typically serve drinks, offer music and dancing. At bars, there are many stereotypes and gender differences that make the experience for both sexes very distinct, but very conflicting. The reasons that men and women go to bars are for the most part, different and also how they are treated at the bar would be absolutely opposite. Therefore they have different experiences while attending bars. One of the typical bars, for the age group of eighteen to twenty-four year olds, is the college bars and clubs that are located throughout every major city. The most common activities that takes place at college clubs and bars is typically drinking, dancing, socializing and at times “hooking up”. These actions show that these unique locations and atmosphere can take a whole different turn on gender stereotypes. It shows through multiple distinctions such as the gendered advertisement of drinks and the different treatment of the genders such as harassment due to the atmosphere. Considering varieties of age group and social entertainment, the knowledge of the bars, specific genders and the related attitudes towards social amusements could be among the most important topics one could research.
Method used in collecting information includes qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data is used to determine the history of the community; quantitative data such as windshield survey, focus group and one on one interview were also included because both sources were important for the past and current information of the community (Stamler & Yiu, 2012, p.221).
I will survey 50 students in the Jester West Dormitory on the third floor in the morning between the hours of 8am and 9am, when most of the residents are awake. I will create an online survey and survey people through the means of technology. On the top of the screen there will be the following question: Do you as a resident of Jester West (3rd floor) acknowledge the hall’s maintenance staff? There will then be the three following choices to answer this given question: 1) Yes, I acknowledge the maintenance staff 2) No, I do not acknowledge the maintenance staff 3) I do not see the maintenance staff. After all the data has been collected, I will tally up the number of students within each of those categories, divide it by 50 (the total number of students surveyed) and convert my findings into percentages. These percentages will allow me to clearly analyze my data by comparing and contrasting the different hypotheses within one set of data. which enables there to be a clear comparison between the different
PROMPT 1 Middle and higher education are my work contexts as a teacher. Ethnographic observation seems to be hard to plan and apply since most of my students have a part-time job and they do not spend much time at home. Ethnographic observation demands a lot of time and planning. However, it is worth it since it provides teachers with the opportunity to develop themselves as researchers and to improve their professional practices. It allows teachers to know students contexts and the marginalized literacy practices they perform.
When I was a kid my parents always took me to Nathdwara to take the blessings of Lord Krishna every now and then because my parents are so religious. So by going there several times I am also attached to that place. Actually Nathdwara is situated in Rajasthan state and I live in the state called Gujarat and in the city called as Ahmedabad. It takes six hours drive from my city to Nathdwara and this is the only nearest place where I could get mental peace. This is very important place for me and my family because it is a tradition of our family that whoever goes there gives free food to the hungry and poor people. We do so because we think that if we do good work in our life we will be allowed by god to go to the heaven. [The two states on the left are Gujarat and Rajasthan. One in light blue color is Gujarat with the arrows and on the top of it with cream color is Rajasthan. I live in the middle of the state and Nathdwara is at the border of the Rajasthan]
The Residential Advisor, or RA, subculture is confined strictly to dormitories. People who have yet to attend college or have never resided in a dorm, may have a lack of knowledge or interest in this particular subculture. Even as a college freshman living in the dorms, I did not have substantial information covering this unique group, which is why I chose to observe them for my ethnography. Although I live with many residential advisors in Naismith Hall, I found myself that I didn’t know much about their potential artifacts, rituals, and languages confined to this individual subculture. With the help of consistent observations, interviews with RAs from different dorms, and reflections of observations, I have received an entirely new view and appreciation of this professional position.
Reflexivity is a qualitative method of research that takes an ethnography one step further, displaying the personal thoughts and reflections of the anthropologist on his informants. Ethnographies generally take an outside or foreign perspective of a culture, like reading a text, and reflexivity introduces a new component of inside description. Here, the anthropologist may describe personal interactions and experiences with natives and use this inside information to make additional conclusions about the people being studied. The ethnographer may also reflect on his ethnic connections with his informants, or his acceptance into the society, explaining that it provides valuable, inside knowledge of the culture and ultimately leads to a greater understanding of the native people as a whole.
Before taking this class, I often thought that our advanced society was the standard in which to measure all other societies from, but after reviewing the material in this course, it is impossible to make such a comparison. Many of the people in a culture similar to the U.S. would probably find most of the cultures we have studied to be “slow”, strange, or undesirable. In fact, it seems that many of the societies actually prefer to live the way they do and accept it as normal. “Normal” is a relative term, and it is difficult to establish evidence to label a culture or its characteristics abnormal. What may seem to work here often would be disastrous to other cultures.
Group 1: hypothesize that there will be an increase in overall athletic performance (due to visualisation and evidence techniques), which would result in an increase in their overall well-being
Social structures are constraints that affect the lives of both the affluent and the indigent members of society. Each society has its own set of social arrangements for example; class, gender and ethnicity are all constraints that each society has to deal with in one way or another. One of the most fundamental of the social structures would be class. Class structure is found in all societies and is the key source of economical inequality. Members of different class groups start their lives with unequal opportunities. This means that when someone is born into a poor household they will undoubtedly remain in the same economical situation they began in. Gender is another important issue when regarding structures. For years women have struggled to be accepted into the workforce and although there have been many improvements on the treatment of female employees there is still a long way to go to reach equal opportunities. Ethnicity has a strong bearing on what we can achieve in life by greatly affecting our place in the labour market. Although Australia is a multicultural society life chances for Australia's own migrants are still less than adequate when it comes to being treated fairly in the workforce.
The behavior I observed was the types of groups people sat with when studying and socializing in the Lakefront on Langdon Cafeteria. I choose to observe this behavior for two reasons. One, as I was sitting in the Lakefront on Langdon Cafeteria Wednesday the 20th of November, I started to take record of the people around me. I spend a lot of time in Memorial Union doing homework, studying, meeting with people, eating lunch, and in general, relaxing. I find the combination of open study spaces, food options, and quiet study areas to be a great combination to increase productivity without feeling like being stuck in a stuffy library. I was curious about the interactions of people in this area and if they were similar to mine or if they were different. After about thirty minutes or so, I noticed that there were people sitting alone, and there were people sitting with groups. I began to notice that men were sitting with men and women were sitting with women, for the most part. I was unsure if this was an exemption or if this was a type of social norm and rule in the cafeteria. I initially wanted to observe the types of activities the people were doing in the Lakefront on Langdon Cafeteria, but at the end of my unstructured observation I realized it was difficult to determine exactly what actions people were performing and it was more interesting that people seemed to be segregating themselves based on gender. Two, I had never noticed this gender divide before and found it interesting. On most of my visits to the union, I am with at least one other person, sometimes they are the same gender and sometimes not. I was curious if this behavior I was noticing was also just a one-time-deal or if this was a recurring trend. For these reasons, ...
Outside of my experience writing note cards, I did know that there was this ‘mysterious art of professional note writing.’ My family owns a roofing business and the operation is pretty old school. My grandfather has a very large architects desk, which he would always keep his
use of paperwork or notebooks and direct human language communication by oral to manage the