Examples Of Cultural Observation

I decided for my social observation the mall would be a good place to start. I came there on a Friday evening when there should be plenty of people to watch. I also sat in the Barnes and Noble café after that to observe. I expected to see a lot of people shopping and conversing. A few things did stand out to me within the few hours I was there. Some things I didn’t expect to see. We are expected to behave a certain way in public determined by our culture as to what is acceptable. Some people stay well within the lines while some might stray outside the norms but never too far typically. Usually the ones to travel to the extremes are adolescents and teenagers. This is what I observed.

From the moment one enters the mall doors it becomes a mission. A mission to spend money in a selfish manner in attempt to feel better about oneself. In a crowd full of people all with the same intention, many malls have conquered our mindsets into believing we’re a community by coming together with no purpose. The mall is in fact a beast with attracting qualities. From the Stores, and food to the shiny floors and fancy designs.

My proposal for the ritual observation and field exercise would be to attend a local mosque in North Hollywood on a Friday night in order to engage in the ritual of salah, which means prayer. I plan to make this trip on Friday July 22, 2016 in order to give myself more time to prepare for the actual project. The religion and cultural group associated with this location are Muslims that meet at their local mosque in order to worship God and unite as a community.

He explains how the mall obtains many of the visitors attention very quickly, which results in them remaining inside the mall for a much longer time than they planned to (Guterson 87). Guterson calls the mall “menacing” until he understands that it is only just a normal mall, the only difference from a smaller sized mall is that it has a lot extra to offer everyone. (Guterson

According to cultural anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor, culture is a “complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” In other words, culture is a concept that social organizations practice in order to explain certain phenomena in nature whether through mythology, rituals, art, music, and language. However, as explained by Ethan Watters in “The Mega Marketing of Depression in Japan,” culture is not permanent, since it has the ability, and more than ever in the present society, to “move across boundaries of race, culture, class, and nation” (Watters 519). In addition, as demonstrated by Oliver Sacks in the articled called “The Mind’s Eye: What the Blind See,” it is a mistake to think that individuals are bound to behave in a way that culture told them to behave. Instead, individuals are free to create his or her own unique experience of interpreting the world. We might consider the “reality” that we live in to be fiction to the extent that we are willing to use different faculties and analyze what we are witnessing; this gives us the power, as individuals, to think and search for each of us’s unique interpretation of reality. .

I noticed the fluorescent green of the leaves of 16th street mall turned to a vomit yellow as my friends and I shopped. Malls have never really been my place to hangout the the obligation that I usually have to speak to people I don’t know very well. Nevertheless, my friends dragged me along for an adventure into the depths of sales at Kohl 's and Macy 's (because who would want to miss out on that, right?). As we sat at the drinking hole known as “the food court”, I saw something I will never

Today, MSC visited Jeffrey at his Dau Habilitation program located on 1221 E14th street, Brooklyn, NY. MSC greeted the receptionist and she called his Day Hab. Supervisor Yocheved Mordkontech. She guided MSC to his classroom and Jeffrey was happy to see his MSC. Jeffrey asked MSC how she was doing and MSC stated good. Jeffrey was dressed appropriatelt in a green shirt, jeans and sneakers. Jeffrey had a clean hair cut. He told MSC that she spoke to his sister and is a little worried about here. He also worries about missing medical appointments. MSC informed him not to worry, Marie Rose will make sure he attends each medical appointments in a timely manner. Yocheved stated that Jeffrey has been doing good. He has been cooperative and he has improved in being courteous of others.

A vivid depiction about the mall’s ……………. around it gives the audience the impression of already visiting the mall. The press kit contained a array of details concerning the mall:

Nowadays young people are the most portrayed in any fashion trends in the nation as well as the world we live in. For example, the magazine cover that I chose called Blueberry London portrays young couples with the newest clothing trends. They both looked very romantic, calm, and bold. Due to ads that are shown

I began my observation in the food court, which is near the movie theatre. This is definitely a hot spot in the mall for young people. I got something to

I’m going to go to Roosevelt’s Row, one of the more popular destinations. I want to observe the kinds of people that go to this event, plus the kinds of people who set up stalls there and the art they sell/what they advertise or do. I’ll take notes on my phone as I walk around.

I set out to find a place to begin my observations, not knowing what to fully expect, what I may find. So I decided to look around at what is close to my home that isn’t a place I frequent or have even visited at all. Then it came to me, the Starbucks that is only about a mile away is a perfect place for me to observe subjects that I would consider different from myself, seeing as how I consider such obscene prices for coffee ridiculous. Starbucks is a very popular chain of coffee vendors that describe their product as more about quality than what Americans are used to in typical coffee joints.

A group of Chinese construction workers found an odd object in the ground when they were trying to widen a road. They discovered the object was very old. They started digging around the object to try to determine what it was. However, when they discovered what it was, they knew that they would need help.

I began my Sociological Observation Paper at the town’s local baseball field. It was about 8:30 p.m. when the game began, and it was about this time when I noticed the connections between the baseball players and the weary watchers. The event can be called a sort of an aggregate, a term used to describe a group of people found at a certain place at a certain time which I became acquainted with on the 25th of June towards the end of the class lecture. While there, I was a bit absent-minded, seeing as I had take notes of the behavior of the people watching while keeping close ties to the players’ interactions with one another.

As I observed these guys, they were in a group of friends. They were walking according to race, two white guys in the front, and then the Hispanic guy was in the middle, and following him was the two black guys. They were very respectful when we turned the corner and let us go through, as we passed them they went back into their formation. Two white guys in the front, and then the Hispanic in the middle, and the two black guys in the back. I also observed that they were having separate conversations among themselves.