ssignment 331.2: Field Observation (25 points):
Purpose:The purpose of thistwo-stepexercise is for you to conduct inductive and deductive research using qualitative methods.
Note: it is important that you conduct the observations as two distinct events during this class; recalling past observations is not the same as purposefully observing your surroundings from a sociological perspective and applying two different types of reasoning to one observation will not be truthful or successful.
The purpose of this exercise if for you to observe onesocial settingorsocial artifactto begin to detect patterns in human behavior observance of norms and potentially behaviors that deviate from the norm. This weeks exercise includes two parts.First without any prep work you will need to go toonepublicplace (or conduct content analysis with your social artifact) and observe the people/artifact for25 minutes. Social Setting: Note peoples behavior their demeanor their reactions/interactions to/with each other. Social artifact: from second to second (for TV) or page to page (for print) Note themes sounds (i.. music) texture of page (i.e. ads in magazine) etc. Second you will develop a research design with research problem hypothesis and operational definitions for variables; then you will conductanother 25 minutesof observations.
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