“People Watching” Participant Observation Activity Questions and Assignment Description You may observe people in any public place where there are a lot of people. Please observe for at least 30 minutes. Some examples include: malls‚ plazas‚ parking lots‚ campuses‚ gas stations‚ office buildings‚ restaurants‚ or anywhere else that’s public. During the observation session‚ write down your notes (see questions below)‚ and then after the session write up a one page reaction paper to your experience
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Statement of thesis Throughout “Participant Observation” the author explains the importance of participant observation and the trials faced by many ethnographers. Dewalt & Dewalt expound upon this by stating what basic elements and attitudes are needed to do participant research effectively. This reading shows how observers face ethical dilemmas‚ gender disadvantages‚ family and safety issues‚ and‚ most importantly‚ limits to participation. How far are they willing to go to gather information
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refer to the world becomes something we talk about in its own right. Semantic ascent is a shift from questions about objects to questions about words or statements. He says we should ‘drop the talk of observation and talk instead of observation sentences‚ the sentences that are said to report observations’ (The roots of Reference). So obviously Quine thinks the two questions are equivalent. They have often been treated as equivalent questions‚ or at least not distinguished too carefully. I agree
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1. Go to a public place and OBSERVE the community of people in that place for at least 30 minutes; perhaps as long as 60 minutes. In your report‚ describe the setting and note the date and time of your observation. Describe the element of “community” that you observed. This past Saturday‚ at 10:00 in the morning‚ my seventh grade son had a basketball game. It was an away game and in attendance was average amount of people there for such an early game. It was fairly cold out that morning‚ as
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Trinity Church Observations I arrived at Trinity Church on Sunday between the hours of 11am and 12pm. While I was observing or ‘people watching’ I noticed quite a few people going to and from Trinity Church. Most people were families including mothers‚ fathers‚ child or children‚ while others were just alone. All dressed fairly nicer than the random people walking the streets of New York City. While there were many families I could have observed‚ I chose one family in particular. The
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Film Observation Note Film: Kitchen Stories Time: 95 minutes Notes: The film started with the presentation of a Swedish scientific study in 1944 on habits of housewives in order to design a perfect environment for them. Then‚ in 1950‚ the Swedish research institute conducted another experiment by distributing researchers to observe single Norwegian men on their use of kitchens. There was a winter in Norway where a policeman stood on a road and watched many cars with caravan camps drove pass him
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Amy Packer(Walck) Eng-105 12/23/2012 Rebecca Foy Observing A Family Dog The observation of a family owned dog‚ a black lab. A lot of family owned dogs are usually friendly in nature. Through my observations of a family owned black lab. I had noticed a few things like actions‚ habits‚ and some behaviors. The black lab along with a lot of family dogs are usually friendly in nature. All dogs show different behaviors due to how they are raised and trained. Some of the
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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
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Cultural Observation Project 2 Name: Location of Observation: Coastal Grand Mall‚ Myrtle Beach‚ SC Date: September 28‚ 2013 Youth 201-Section #B01 What I Have Learned? (at least two full pages) During this second observation at Coastal Grand Mall in Myrtle Beach‚ South Carolina‚ I learned many things. I went to this location on a Saturday night‚ where it was full of young people. The weather outside was warm‚ but rainy‚ so I believe this caused even more people to look for indoor
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Anthropology observation Observation report I began my observations in one of my favourite Coffee shops at 2.55 PM and finished around 3.45 on a Wednesday in late August. In order to ‘activate’ my role of participant observer‚ I ordered a caramel favoured coffee together with my friend‚ whom I had brought along to help me observe. I sat opposite the serving counter‚ where two female servants were now making my coffee‚ over in one of the corners so my observation wouldn’t be too obvious. Lit
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