Sociology Observation Summary
Elam 1
Sam Elam
Mr. Unrien
Sociology: Hour 5
12 September 2012
Sociology Observation Summary
This weekend, I decided to go and observe my dentist office. It’s also a bit more than a dentist office but I didn’t go in the other little buildings they all seemed to have stuff to do. I thought that my dentist office would be a perfect place to do a social observation. I mean think about it everyone has teeth and most people go to dentist so you have a very diverse community. I also went into my dentist office to observe people and I even decided to ride the elevator for a while and see how people are in elevators. I started my observations right inside the building I held the door for people. Of course I always got the classic thank you, …show more content…
I always sit were I usually do right next to the door facing the little waterfall thing on the wall, I like the sound of the water. It also helps drain our the noise of crying children who are having there teeth worked on. In my dentist we have two Mac computers and a play gym thing built into the wall, its pretty sick. Of course when ever a little kid would come in the first thing he would do was either a run to the play gym and crawl up into it or go jump on one of the computers to play some kid games they have on it, and the moms and or dads that brought them all did the same thing the sat down in a chair and read a magazine. Some teenagers came in one actually decided to crawl in the gym it was funny how we all have some kid at heart. But my favorite part was when a teen ager would go up to the computer to play a game, heed get up there start clicking around looking for stuff and then just get off. The Macs in the dentist have a special program that only has kid games no Internet or anything fun like that. I found this amusing because it happened 3 times I found it very
Sam Elam
Mr. Unrien
Sociology: Hour 5
12 September 2012
Sociology Observation Summary
This weekend, I decided to go and observe my dentist office. It’s also a bit more than a dentist office but I didn’t go in the other little buildings they all seemed to have stuff to do. I thought that my dentist office would be a perfect place to do a social observation. I mean think about it everyone has teeth and most people go to dentist so you have a very diverse community. I also went into my dentist office to observe people and I even decided to ride the elevator for a while and see how people are in elevators. I started my observations right inside the building I held the door for people. Of course I always got the classic thank you, …show more content…
I always sit were I usually do right next to the door facing the little waterfall thing on the wall, I like the sound of the water. It also helps drain our the noise of crying children who are having there teeth worked on. In my dentist we have two Mac computers and a play gym thing built into the wall, its pretty sick. Of course when ever a little kid would come in the first thing he would do was either a run to the play gym and crawl up into it or go jump on one of the computers to play some kid games they have on it, and the moms and or dads that brought them all did the same thing the sat down in a chair and read a magazine. Some teenagers came in one actually decided to crawl in the gym it was funny how we all have some kid at heart. But my favorite part was when a teen ager would go up to the computer to play a game, heed get up there start clicking around looking for stuff and then just get off. The Macs in the dentist have a special program that only has kid games no Internet or anything fun like that. I found this amusing because it happened 3 times I found it very