Southern New Hampshire University SOC 112 Module One Worksheet Sociological Observation
Before your observation, think about the following behaviors you might observe:
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.
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Southern New Hampshire University Questions Your Answers 1. Where did you conduct your I was able to conduct my observation at the neighborhood observation? Walmart. Being that there is constantly traffic in and out. Along with a different variety of cultures. 2. At what time of day did you I conducted my observation on a Sunday afternoon, after church. conduct your observation? This being because that is when the customers usually pile in. Customers from all different lifestyles, church goers and the non- church crowd. 3. How did your appearance as As a middle-aged, 5'2 lady not in the best of physical shape haha. I an individual affect your was dressed in sweatpants and a hoodie, and I think I felt a little observation? For example, like a hobo. I guess my attractiveness allowed me stick out a little. gender, race/ethnicity, age, dress, hairstyle, and so on. 4. Did anyone react to you? My former coworkers were the first to react to me; many were What did they look like, and pleased to discover that I had improved during my departure. what was their reaction? or staring at me strangely due to how I looked. Strangers had approached me and asked me questions, but not many people have engaged with me. Some people stared at me based on the way I was dressed, but that was the sole incident that occurred. 5. How did you feel while you To be honest