Ethnographic Observation By Ellis Mahdy And Wolfe

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

Testosterone is a hormone that is more concentrated in men than in women as it is a male sex hormone, it is thought to influence aggression from a young age onwards, due to its actions on the brain areas involved in controlling aggression. One research study that was done on testosterone involved measuring the testosterone found in the saliva of violent and non-violent criminals. This study was concluded by Dabbs et al

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.

Aim: To explore the effect of testosterone has on male’s generosity and their aggression Hypothesis: Excess testosterone would lead to men being more aggressive and less generous

The site chosen for this ethnographical study was The Square on downtown Arcata, California. This location was selected based on what we speculate is an increased population of transient individuals. Many Humboldt State University students and faculty are represented in this area due to its close proximity. The question this study will address the question of what it means to be a member of the transient community and how it is that they interact with the permanent residents or students of Arcata. This question will be examined by analyzing information collected in the field while observing and interviewing members of transient and non-transient populations.

To understand ethnographic observation, in assignment six we were to conduct an observation of elevator behaviors. I have choose the elevators located in the New Science Building of Eastern Kentucky University of Richmond campus. I have observed total of 13 minutes in two separated dates, on February, 8th from 10:00 AM to 10:05 AM; February 9th from 11:00 AM to 11:05 AM, and 12:15 Pm to 12:18 PM

Researchers have studied the differences among the social classes and found that social class can impact factors beyond resources and lifestyle, such as personality and self-perception (Ranchor et al., 1996). In a study conducted by Kraus et al. (2010) the researchers concluded that members of the lower class tend to judge the emotions of others more accurately than members of higher social classes (Cook & Lawson, 2016). This study showed that social class can impact the way people interact with others along with how they perceive themselves, primarily due to their unique experiences throughout their lives. Education is a major factor that has contributed to the distinctive experiences and worldviews experienced by members of different social classes. Research has shown that teachers of working-class backgrounds prioritize personal development, whereas teachers of middle class backgrounds mainly prioritize knowledge and cognitive development (Hoadley & Ensor, 2009). Children and adolescents spend a large amount of time in school where they are learning about the world and interacting with others; their personality and values will greatly develop during this

The correlation between elevated testosterone levels and the desire for dominance is a strong one. Dominance is generally associated with self-confidence; and believing in oneself is a quality almost universally viewed as beneficial. High testosterone in males are also known to be extremely competitive, and commonly known to have “killer instincts.” In sports it can be useful, in business pragmatic—in cutthroat businesses, an asset. However, the driving need to compete with others undermines the empathy, understanding, tolerance, and compassion necessary to sustain close, caring relationships. At its worst high Testosterone dominance and competitiveness can involve brute force, violent and aggressive fighting behavior of all kinds. High T males can be “rough and callous” they tend not to be concerned about—or, for that matter, interested in the feelings of others. Unmoderated feelings such as lust, resentment, or rage can easily preempt the softer feelings of love, compassion, or forgiveness. Sadly, there is something that contributes to an almost predatory frame of mind, at least for those not reared very caringly in childhood, the risk to being subject to such unsympathetic parenting is a clear possibility that high t males have been cursed with the ….to do things to the extreme, risk abusing this energy in potentially dangerous ways. Those with high levels are more inclined to smoke, drink alcohol excessively and indulge in

I'm from a science family, my dad is a dentist and my mom is a pharmacist back home so loving silence in my blood before i even was born. They taught me a lot about science, they taught me the basic ideas about science like every person has a different DNA that’s why is not difficult if a crime happened the police can easily know who was guilty and who was not. I love science it is so interesting for me and because of that I decided to follow up my parents way.

Daniel Goldstein has written an elaborate and intelligent ethnography about the impoverished indigenous resident’s experiences and perceptions of security and, often more than not, the lack thereof. The level and magnitude of Crime and violence grip their communities until they cannot take the struggle any further. The indigenous, they lack legal titles to their homes, and people feel abandoned by a state that is supposed to uphold law and order and protect all citizens irrespective of race, gender and class, but that instead tends to cause more anxiety and insecurity among marginalized citizens . People are outlawed in a double sense: “negatively included and perilously excluded”, as Goldstein puts it. They can feel at once burdened and abandoned

aggressive fighting and social play) despite exposure to high levels of testosterone. Out of this research came the popular and resilient organizational and activational hypothesis, in which perinatal hormone levels organized the creation of a ‘male’ or ‘female’ brain. Without such early organization, the hypothesis states, any activational stimuli (i.e. exposure to testosterone) will not have as great an effect since there is no structural or functional basis for responding to such activational forces. A competing hypothesis focuses not on the internal organization of the animal in question but on the context of the situation that the animal is placed in. Within this hypothesis the environment can have a significant effect on the behaviors elicited. It is worth exploring a brief survey of the evidence and applications of these theories in order to gain a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. These theories also play a key role in the interpretation of behavioral experiments as they pertain to humans.

This study does not conclusively establish a positive correlation between high testosterone and anti-social behavior. The researchers concluded from a correlational study that a causal relationship exists, yet that assumption is faulty. Causality cannot be implicated due to reverse causation or a third confounding variable. Regardless, there is still merit to this data if high testosterone is said to not play a predisposing role to aggressiveness. For example, a third variable, physical activity, tends to increase testosterone. Therefore, actors and NFL players who are more physically active than ministers, should have higher levels of testosterone; which does not imply high testosterone leads individuals to choose more anti-social and aggressive

For my ethnographic report, I focused on my responses and those of the people I interacted with in person on 8 November 2016 upon willingly choosing to give up all gadgets and devices with internet capabilities for 24 hours. Ideally, the decision to disconnect on the 8th revolves around the recently concluded Presidential elections in the United States. The goal was to ascertain my responses towards every ongoing off-line aspect in my life without any forms of online interaction in order to gauge my personal understanding of socio-political events and debates related to the election. The twenty-four-hour disconnection began at midnight and ended on 9 November. The morning of the election was particularly difficult due to the excitement caused

Family's social class position shapes the process of socialization by the raising of a child. A child's social class affects activities the child performs in. If the child is of a higher class then the child is more likely to branch out and be involved in a variety of things; where as if the child is of a low class the child is more likely to be apart of few activities and branch out less. Children of higher class are typically held to a higher standard than children of lower class due to the expectancy of the child to have similar qualities as their family. Children of lower class are also less likely to travel and experience a variety of culture where as higher class children tend to travel and be involved in a variety of cultural activities.

A robot’s affective state can be assessed on several levels, such as its contextual understanding of the world, the appropriateness of the affective responses it displays, and the degree to which it expresses an affective state. To perform these assessments, robot designers can actually employ some of the same techniques as described in the Section 4.1, particularly ethnographic observation, interviews and surveys. The difference is that the robot becomes the focus of evaluation instead of the user, and its affective expression is what is measured. Subjects are usually given emotion recognition tests - specific tasks that subject them to the various affective states of the robot for which they have to identify the displayed emotion. For example,