The observational study was conducted at the Indiana State University food court. All of the restaurants, along with the people in the surrounding were observed. The goal of this study is to better understand the environment and situational factors at the Indiana State University food court. The researcher started the study at the peak of lunch to get a better observation of how busy the area is and get the most effective results for the study. The first observation the researcher made was the most visited, busiest restaurants in the food court. The most visited during the lunch hour peak was George’s and Einstein Bros. At the beginning of the observational study both George’s and Einstein Bros had approximately twenty people standing …show more content…
Almost every single person had a cell phone or laptop that they were using. Most people within the food court were on both their laptops and cell phones at the same time. The most interesting observation made was the people who were sitting in crowds talking and they were on an electronic device of some kind. There was occasional conversing of the groups, but the researcher observed the person go back to their electronics after the brief conversation was over. The researcher also observed people with headphones in their ears, which were hooked up to both their laptop or cell phone and talking with there friends. It is amazing to see how disconnected the people were with reality. The people around them were almost nonsexist and the only thing that mattered was their electronic device. The researcher believes this could be detrimental to the college student’s communication skills in the future. If the people are always connected to media then they will lose valuable communication skills needed for most …show more content…
Most sorority sisters and fraternity brothers were sitting together. The way the researcher discovered this was each person had a sorority or fraternity shirt on with the same symbol as others in their group. The researcher was surprised to see that other sororities would not sit with each other, and it was the same for the fraternities. Some of the sorority females would go over and talk with the fraternity males. The different sororities would never mix in and converse with each other, and it was the same for the fraternities. The researcher concluded that there must be some sort of rivalry between the sororities and the fraternities. The researcher was interested in the fact that they did not seem to like each other. Most of the males and females of the fraternities and sororities probably have never met. It is likely that most of these people have never personally talked to each other and there is just a pre-conceived notion to dislike any other fraternity or
After a long day in school and studying, every student needs a night off to just relax and enjoy a meal at a restaurant. In this modern time, some aspects of a restaurant can be the deciding choice. Many choose their restaurant of choice based on either those they are with, their personal, cultural appetite, their routine eating habits or their mood. Some of these preferences are similar yet others are the deciding differences. Two common franchise restaurants that pose differences are Applebee’s and Olive Garden. These two restaurants present their differences in environmental and food options causing a choice between them.
In the article, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” author Sherry Turkle wants to tell the reader that people should value and respect their relationship by replacing smartphone with face-to-face conversation. She is a professor who studying psychology for around 30 years; she uses many other psychologists study to proved that people are rely on smartphone too much and start to replace conversations with texting. In the essay, she explains how the smartphone is becoming an essential part of America lives; which later affected people’s way of communication. She also provides several solutions for people to solve the negative effect that come from those devices; so people can learn how to push back against it and start to engage more in the conversation for benefit yourself with friendship and society.
For my report, I observed the customers at a Starbucks in downtown St. Petersburg. Each time I visited this establishment, there were consistent factors as well as unique ones during each observation. The morning crowd of people was vastly different than the evening crowd. I did however see many parallels with the morning and lunch time crowd. Each time I visited, There seemed to be an upbeat and fast paced environment.
Since 1843 there has over 200 cited college hazing deaths. Fraternities are responsible for the overwhelming majority of those deaths. That is not to say that sororities
Sorority to feel like they belong to something greater; in fact, it is greater than they are; without the whole Greek organization one person in it would be nothing. Each Greek organization or group performs the necessary function to work together, the functionalism of the organization must adapt and balance school, work and life. A french sociologist Emilie Durkheim defined the term “Social Facts”; which is the way of thinking and acting formed by the society that existed before any individual and that will continue to exist after one time. The social facts cannot be influenced by anyone; so, there for once you have moved on from the group as your life goes on it will not impact the Greek organization because it goes on with or without you. The social fact balances with the school, without it the Greek organization will die and with the school’s they
That standard of academic excellence pushes you to become a great student, “if students want to become affiliated with academic discourse communities, or even if they want to succeed in school, they have to make considerable sacrifices,” (Johns 326). Johns’ outline of success academic discourse communities is on point. Fraternities are academic communities along with social. Much sacrificed time has to be taken to be apart and contribute to fraternity, for example a leadership role. A fraternity offers many opportunities of leadership opportunities.
Before the eighteenth century, one would not even know what a sorority was; let alone what a sorority meant to the community. Today, everyone is familiar what sorority mean and what they accomplish for the community. The American Heritage Student Dictionary’s definition of sorority is “a chiefly social organization of women students at a college or university; an association of women” (882). The dictionary’s definition gives the impression of a general sorority. Lawrence Ross defines sorority as more than the wearing of letters, or...
The Evils of Fraternities and Sororities Joining fraternities and sororities has been a long tradition among many college and university students within the United States. As the number of students entering colleges and universities grows, the influence and pressure to join fraternities and sororities grows as well. According to a research project conducted by Dr. Gary D. Malaney, associate professor of education and director of student affairs at the University of Massachusetts, “58.6% [of 413 students surveyed] reported having at least a few friends who belong to the Greek Area” (Malaney 2). However, the Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of Miami in February 2004 was found at fault for the death of Chad Meredith for “attempting a drunken early-morning swim across Lake Osceola during a hurricane as part of a fraternity-initiation stunt” (Sileo 1). In August of 2004, the Psi Epsilon Chi chapter from the State University of New York was found guilty in the death of Walter Dean Jennings for “acute water intoxication during a pledge ceremony in which he was forced to drink alcohol and ingest enough water to make his lungs collapse” (Sileo 1).
Often, when one hears about fraternities or sororities on the news, the program has to do with hazing and a death or injury that it has caused an innoce...
Nuwer, Hank. Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999. Print.
By using observation methods, a wide variety of behavior can be recorded. Picking through the garbage on the side of the road can reveal behaviors of fast-food customers, or sitting for only one hour in the university canteen to understand the gender differences in choosing a diet meal, or even watching the customer’s behavior from deciding which yogurt to be taken off its store shelves in the supermarket can also answer the question: Are the customers attracted by its appearance or flavor or price or brand or nutrition? The aim of this observation assignment is to evaluate and explain the different types of interactions between individuals and groups present, as well as the environment in which these interactions take place. The field observation was conducted at the Vietnamese fast-food restaurant named “We love Banhmi” in Budapest, and the role adopted, was that of observer as a non-participant. Group structures as well as overall activity, patterns of behavior, and the duration and timing of such behaviors and interactions were observed and recorded.
My research location is one of the most popular coffee shop in the city which is Starbucks that located at California and Sprues street in San Francisco. I am interested in this topics because it controls my attention to keep watch what others are doing and what is going on near me. This topic has a potential sociological significant because coffee shop is one of the most popular places that many people want to go. Starbucks is a famous coffee shop in the United States that has many customers. The, majority of customers were students who carrying bags, holding lap tops and books as well as a big number of Sutter Health Hospital employees who wear their uniforms and looking in their break time. Also there were a group of police officers who
...ss social. Our amount of social skills has gone way down over the years. The lawyers and doctors do not have as high of education and the way they interact is not as good. When we talk through messages, it causes conflict resolution, which causes war. What has this world come to, so many kids bring their cell phones to school which distracts them from learning. It is up to the parents to teach their kids the importance of using face to face communication. We cannot back down; limit the amount of electronics they use. We need to make the world more educated with our social skills. If we do not we will begin to rely just on electronics. Connecting through electronic media will never be a satisfactory replacement. “No amount of texting, or blogging or Facebook is as satisfying as a walk in the park with a good friend. Why? Because it is simply our nature” (Stitch 3).
The cafeteria serves about one hundred and fifty residents of Cambridge Hall and approximately one hundred residents from Nottingham Hall. The cafeteria serves hot foods, salads, snacks, sandwiches, and beverages. The data has given me information on the percentage of customers that preferred a hot meal (interactive and precooked) to snacks, the ratio of customers that prefer precooked hot meals over an interactive hot meal, line formation, service times at the different stations, arrival times and the location of the different stations. I also learned that the peak hours of operations are from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and that the cafeteria has two cash registers available but only one is being utilized during the peak hours. If customers decide on a hot meal there is a 2 to 1 ratio that customers will purchase a precooked meal over an interactive meal. Through an informal customer survey, reasonable waiting times were established for the precooked line (5 minutes), the interactive line (10 minutes), and the cashier payment line (1minute).
With 80% of Americans using internet, and that 80% spending an average of 17 hours a week online (each), according to the 2009 Digital Future Report, we are online more than ever before. People can't go a few hours let alone a whole day without checking their emails, social media, text messages and other networking tools. The average teen today deals with more than 3,700 texts in just a month. The use of technology to communicate is making face to face conversations a thing of the past. We have now become a society that is almost completely dependent on our technology to communicate. While technology can be helpful by making communication faster and easier, but when it becomes our main form of conversation it becomes harmful to our communication and social skills. Technological communication interferes with our ability to convey our ideas clearly. Technology can harm our communication skills by making us become unfamiliar with regular everyday human interactions, which can make it difficult for people to speak publicly. Technology can also harm our ability to deal with conflict. These days it is easier to h...