Ethnography Summary Paper

Ethnographic research is the scientific description of specific human cultures, foreign to the ethnographer. Each ethnographer has his or her own way of conducting research and all of these different ideas can be transmitted and understood in a number of different ways. Because there is no one set idea of how an ethnographer should go about his or her research, conflicts arise. In Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, Paul Rabinow uses a story like process to discuss his experiences during his research in Morocco. This makes it easier for the reader to understand his ideas then just having a technical book about the many different aspects of Moroccan life that he may have discovered. In Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of

While conducting my ethnography I have interviewed five All-Girl members, and four Coed members of the Spirit program. By interviewing one more All-Girl members I hope to even out my biases due to being a part of the Coed team. Yet, before defining the differences found between the two teams, I will share the apparent similarities. Both teams show strong linguistic accommodations which I have observed at numerous appearances, such as changing the way one would speak due to their audience. When present at an appearance all members of the Spirit program are expected to intermingle and socialize with attendees. During the course of this exchange it became apparent that accommodating for the age of audience drastically changed the way the team members spoke. For example, when Jules Wazny was speaking to an elderly man she reduced the tempo at which she spoke and asked questions about the game and respectfully shook his hand; yet when she was speaking to a child she spoke in a higher pitch tone, offered the child her poms to play with, and asked questions such as how old the child was. These actions represent convergence, changing ones language to better fit the style of the recipient, which was not only found with All-Girl Cheerleader Jules Wazny, but also throughout the program. An example from a Coed member was Vivi Benbrook changing how she spoke with a middle age male, in a calm and respectful manor asking questions of the game such as where his seats where, and if he thought we were going to win. Contrast this to when she spoke to an elderly women, she used a higher pitch when asking if she was excited, and telling her to stay warm in this cold weather. All members, once wearing affiliated attire, whether it is practice gear,

This is my first time that I come to New York, so I am curious about many things in this new place, such as the famous resorts, and the people here. As we know, the Times Square is very famous in New York. When I was in China, I hope I can visit Times Square, because I saw Times Square was very great in some of the opening of American series. Now, I am in New York, and I have enough chances to visit Times Square whenever I want. In there, it gives me a new horizon to understand the culture that is different from China.

A norm is a socially expected behavior that may change based on a person, place, or situation. An agency is a freedom of choice. For my ethnographic research, I have to observe a public place in which people commonly interact with each other. A public place that stood out to me was the Lockwood library third floor. I chose this location because it is not similar to a usual library, it is the complete opposite. Libraries enforce strict rules like no eating and no talking. Lockwood floor three says otherwise. The floor is filled with long tables that can seat around twenty people each. Ironically, there are no bookcases on this floor, just tables everywhere. There is one group study room on this floor which can be reserved by students which is the size of an average classroom.

The purpose of this study was to see how high intensity interval training alter ATP in maximal muscle contractions. This study consisted of young eight men who performed six series of repeated 30 s all out sprints on an ergometer (Larsen, Maynard, & Kent, 2014). The purpose of an ergometer is to measure the amount of work is used to perform this task. All of the participants were students at University of Massachusetts who volunteered to participate in this study. Ages ranged from 27. 0 ± 3.4 years, no participates was currently participating in any regular exercise program. No participates were on any type of medication or vitamin to help

When giving the results to an antisaccade task, the author reveals,”Ten-year-olds [fail] about 45 percent of the time… by age 15 [the members taking the task] can score as well as adults… resisting temptation 70 to 80 percent of the time” (Dobbs 2). As the brain transitions from adolescence to adulthood, perspectives and impulses begin to change. The way the brain changes affects the way one sees different situations. Dobbs says, “teens take more risks not because they don’t understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently” when talking about specific teenage behaviors (4). Over time, when the brain is evolving, humans begin to think differently; therefore, their perspective of different situations change. The way a person’s brain evolves from childhood to adulthood allows one’s perspective to change in certain

Me: As I performed the posture test on myself I already knew that I would have proper posture. Due to the fact that when I was younger, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I had a slouchy posture. I had (Lordosis) and an anterior pelvic tilt, which made me look awful from a side point of view. I wanted to fix my posture and learned that I had weak abdominal muscles and tight hamstrings along with weak gluteus maximus muscles. As I learned how to fix my problem, I began doing exercises for those muscles for flexibility and strength gains. For my exercises in detail I began standing for a long period of time and would flex my gluteus maximus muscles and keep them tight for a period of time to strengthen them which would be for a few minutes. This fixed the slight curve in my lower back. The next step I performed was the same as with my gluteus maximus muscles but for my abs which helped keep a good posture naturally without thinking about my posture deviations and how to fix them. I could now begin to stand naturally with a good posture. The last step I did was stand against a wall with my back and neck flat against the wall and I would press my tongue against the top of my mouth to

Low, Taplin, and Lamb, Battery Park City An Ethnographic Field Study of the Community Impact

Look in the past of many photographs that I was lived in a area of big country had most

An ethnographic study would be the most beneficial methodology for my research because it focuses on an in-depth study of a group (Hoonard 2012).

In my ethnographic study, I apply theoretical concepts developed by Erving Goffman in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life to the behavior of employees in the retail department store, Macy’s. Goffman (1959) argues that social interactions in everyday life can be understood as presentations between performers and audiences. Within social establishments, he suggests four analytical frameworks may govern how performers stage their “characters” including the technical, political, structural and cultural; he also argues that the aforementioned perspectives are situation-specific and thus can also be analyzed within a broader dramaturgical framework (Goffman 1959). The task of this research project is to determine the relative importance of

This article showcases an overview of the role technology can play in enhancing and improving how students learn statistics. It however underscore the point that as teachers we need to ensure that we use the technology that we understand rather than introducing new technology that we have no understanding of. In using technology that we understand we will be better able to help the students to improve their overall performances. Importantly the technology should also be chosen based on student’s ability to grasp, how interactive it is and how easy it is to be used as a tool for collaborative learning.

The study conducted by Joseph L. Rotman (2006) has a purpose to test a model of the antecedents and consequences of job and organization engagements based on social exchange theory in a descriptive design, quantitative method and a survey technique. A survey was completed by 102 employees working in a variety of jobs and organizations. The average age was 34 and 60 percent were female. Participants had been in their current job for an average of four years, in their organization average of five years, and hadon average 12 years of work experience. The survey included measures of job and organization engagement as well as the antecedents and consequences of engagement. The results indicate that there is a meaningful difference between job and

The brain is complex and amazing machine and needs time to develop. In the late 20th century when brain imaging technology became available researchers found that “our brains undergo a massive reorganization between our 12th and 25th years. ” This is what explains a teenagers and young people’s tendency to take more risks, the brain isn’t fully developed. When an experiment was conducted where you were supposed to stop yourself from looking at a suddenly appearing light, overriding your natural impulse, adults used the different parts of the brain to achieve the task and achieved it more often than teens. “Compared with adults, teens tended to make less use of brain regions that monitor performance, spot errors, plan, and stay focused—areas

The study agitates the effectiveness of experimental literature (both field amd laboratory) in discovering the different sides of gender differences as individuals as well as it's impact to the labor market. The experimentation extends its findings on the identified bias between male and female in different segments of Labor work. The findings suggests that Women appears highly averse to both risk taking and planting competitors as well as being more sensitive to issues compared to men. These differences may have different dimensions of effects to both individual aspect and group setting. For instance, the gender composition of a team may have diverse judgment and performance compared to another. The Majority of the evidences regarding the