112 Module One Worksheet Sociological Observation PDF

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SOC 112 Module One Worksheet Sociological Observation Before your observation, think about the following behaviors you might observe:   

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Eye contact: Do people avoid making eye contact with you? Body language: Do people change their posture near you? Do they move away from you? Do they stop to see what you are doing? Facial expressions: Do people give you a strange look? Do they appear to be confused by your behavior? Suspicious? Amused? Indifferent? What does their facial expression look like and what does it suggest? Ignoring you: Do people simply ignore you? What about their behavior suggests that they are ignoring you? Social Factors: Did you feel your gender, race, ethnicity, or age affected how people responded to your presence? Did you see differences in how people were treated differently based on their gender, race, ethnicity, or age?

In choosing a location for your sociological observation, consider how your race, ethnicity, and gender could affect how people (i.e., management, security) respond to you. Please choose a location where you can feel comfortable and safe to conduct your observation. After your observation, answer the following questions in complete sentences (1–3 sentences per question). You must include at least one APA reference related to your observation. Explain whether it supports your observation, and cite it correctly in your explanation. Refer to the module Resources section in the course for help creating APA citations and references. Your responses will be graded using the Module One Worksheet Rubric. To complete this worksheet, replace the bracketed text with the relevant information. Questions

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1. Where did you conduct your observation?

At a restaurant called Firebirds Wood Fired Grill.

2. At what time of day did you conduct your observation?

Late evening (around 9PM-ish). It was a spur of the date night for my husband and I.

3. How did your appearance as an individual affect your observation? For example, gender, race/ethnicity, age, dress, hairstyle, and so on.

My race, gender, how I was dressed, and hairstyle/color had an affect on me as an individual. I felt like that I was maybe overdressed but I wasn’t prepared to be eating at a fancy restaurant nor did I know.

4. Did anyone react to you? What did they look like, and what was their reaction?

People were staring at me and just quickly looked away. They were of all races (Black, White, Mexican and maybe Puerto Rican).

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5. How did you feel while you were conducting the observation? Was it difficult for you to be the observer? How did this observation differ from your life as an everyday actor?

I felt somewhat uncomfortable like I didn’t belong. It was sort of a fancy restaurant and I had on a basic dress with some sandals with my hair up. It was challenging because I didn’t want to make it obvious that I was being an observer. It differed from my everyday life because people usually don’t stare at me like that. If anything, they’ll look and/or speak and keep it moving but Saturday night, it felt different for me.

References (Include at least one academic reference in this section and include relevant in-text citations for each reference listed in the chart.) Reference: Inniss, J. P. (2021, February 8). Amanda Gorman’s sociological imagination. In Everyday Sociology. W.W. Norton. https://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2021/02/amanda-gormanssociologicalimagination.html By looking over this reference, this helped me to develop my observation, to know what to look for and how to be prepared to do my observation. This was very helpful to me when I was ready to conduct my observation. I was prepared for a negative and/or a positive experience and I made the best of the situation and environment. I knew that this could have either been a success or a failure, but I was optimistic regardless. We never know how others look at us, what they’re thinking or what they’re saying but that’s all a matter of people having an opinion on or about you....