For my ethnography project I chose to study the life at the library located at Bryant University. A library is a key component in a culture‚ giving people a perfect environment to study‚ learn‚ work‚ and preserve important information from the past and the present. In order to maintain good grades in college‚ students have to dedicate a handful of their time to studying for each of their classes. Most college students prefer to study and do work in the library due to its quiet and peaceful atmosphere
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Ethnography on The Nazca Lines During our visit to Ica Peru in December 2012‚ my wife‚ her family and I took a trip to the Nazca Lines in Nazca Peru‚ I was pretty excited because I’ve seen them on the history Chanel a few years back and I told my wife that we had to go see them when we go to Peru. Then she surprised me. Not only was I going to but I was going to take a plane to see them. Now this was amazing‚ keep in mind I’m not sure what I was expecting when I would go up in the plane. But I
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Sociology 240- Ethnography Assignment 2 1 October 10‚ 2012 5:00pm- 5:40 pm New York Public Transit A train This paper will serve to report my observation on the New York City public transportation letter A train line. I see that a lot of people have headphones in their ears‚ reading magazines‚ reading books‚ newspapers and on their phones. The guy sitting next to me to my right is reading‚ had headphones in his ears and is casually dressed. There is a guy with a red sweater who is standing
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Ethnography Community As the High Line now is an iconic site in New York‚ there is a busy and nosy scene on it most of the time‚ day and evening. Different communities‚ visitors‚ business‚ and staff are engaging in various activities here. Visitors It could be seen that the High Line is a miniature of New York‚ which is home to different groups of people‚ professionals‚ students‚ labors and tourists‚ living or visiting the city every day. As can be seen in anywhere in New York‚ in the High Line
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Six Themes in the Ethnography of Prostitution Clare Sterk reports about women who work as prostitute. Most of these women worked in streets‚ crack houses‚ and other pubic places. Sterk came up with six themes in the ethnography of prostitution: 1) A woman’s explanation for why she joined the field 2) The four types of prostitutes are streetwalkers‚ hooked prostitutes‚ addicts‚ crack prostitutes 3) The role of the pimp in their life 4) The impact of the AIDS epidemic 5) The violence and abuse that
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Stacy H. Smith Comm-384-7501 Dr. Misner April 20‚ 2014 Ethnography of Cruisers Biker Bar . To conduct an ethnography we formed a group of three‚ which consisted of Mic Cahla‚ Daniel‚ and myself. As a group we decided to do our ethnography on biker bars. We choose to go to Cruisers on Thursday‚ April 17 and again on Saturday‚ April 19. We also tried to meet at Curley’s prior to meeting at Cruisers on Saturday‚ but it was too cold and windy for anyone to be outside on the patio‚ and if
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*When I chose Sociology as my major there were many things going on in my life. Around that time I was considering dropping my degree in Information Technology and school all together. For a good portion of my life I never could have imagined myself being a college student. In fact I did not wish to be a student. I only became a student because Georgia Military College was offering free tuition for students freshly out of highschool. That just so happened to fit my description at the time. So I signed
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Sociology is all around us‚ and by looking closely at it you are able to see how it has a deeper impact and shapes our lives. Society today has become fast paced and very reliant on technology‚ which has resulted in people’s lives changing and how we live them. I am greatly interested in whether or not our lives our becoming too modernised and if technology continues to expand in the way that it has been will there be a need for human skill and labour‚ as even the agricultural industry has become
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Foundations of College Writing November 9‚ 2013 The Brotherhood: Ethnography of a Firefighter In Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Society‚ the writer’s‚ McCurdy‚ Spradley‚ and Shandy use the term “microculture” and define it as a culture associated with groups that form for a variety of reasons‚ but do not consume every hour of the member’s time (McCurdy 15). We learn that a microculture has its own language‚ behaviors‚ and standards that are shared amongst the group. People can be
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The article “Ethnography of Global Connection” by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing shows the economic methods and their study to the global interconnections. Moreover‚ the book represents the image of the world connection in a global economy. It describes perfectly how countries clash with different characteristics of other economies into their own; by starting gradually to become more dependent on one another for the only reason- the economic growth. This article includes interesting facts and observations
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