Social Interview Research Paper

I interviewed my friend, Artina Tarokh. She is 13 years old. She goes to Portola and is in 8th grade. She came to America in 2016. She came from Cyprus, which is a country in the Eastern Mediterranean. Artina was born in Iran and left when she was 6. Artina left behind her family in Iran and moved to Cyprus. She was 11 years old when she came with her mother to San Diego. Her dad came a year before. She immigrated to America because her parents saw more opportunities here.

S is a 59 year old African-American female born and raised in Anson County who has attended several institutes of higher learning. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Secretarial Administration from Barber-Scotia College, she later received special education teaching licensure from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Because of her love for learning, S has also taken online classes through the University of Phoenix. She has been a secondary special education teacher for three years and currently works with 8th graders at Anson Middle School.

Do you think Serge’s skills were assessed adequately? Do you think he was correctly identified as learning disabled? Why or Why not?

Culture is defined as the boundary between different people from different ends of the earth. For my project I had to interview another person from a different culture. This was difficult for me because I had no idea where to start because I didn’t know what made my culture specific to me. I found my interview subject relatively fast and I sat down and asked the questions. I found my subject from my boss I interviewed my bosses boyfriends sister and we went at it.

As my cultural other, I interviewed EMG, she is 26 years old and the au pair for my nephew and niece. She lives in their home since she moved from her hometown Cartagena in southeast Spain. She will be leaving this May to return to Spain, for her sister’s high school graduation, after about 18 months with the family. In the time she has been here, I have seen and interacted with her at family gatherings, usually holidays and birthdays. I have not personally created a bond or relationship with EMG, but I think she is a sweet girl. EMG has become friends with my daughter; they have gone to New York City for New Year’s Eve and Pennsylvania for a Taylor Swift concert.

For my interview, I chose to interview my mom, Ilsa Wells, who had been born and lived in Colombia for 23 years before moving to the United States. Her family in Colombia was able to get by and provide for their fairly large family, albeit barely and with a lot of people having to work to make ends meet. She got her education there and when she was 23 she decided to move here in search of job opportunities and a better life.

When we were given this assignment I was very uneasy about talking to another person about personal matters. Let alone someone who I had never had a conversation with and was of a different race and ethnicity. My interviewee's name is Micheal. He considers himself black of African American descent. He is a black 36 yr old black male. Michael was born in San Bernardino, CA. He’s an educated and a professional male who works in college. He is the father of 2 boys, happily married. His wife is considered a white woman. Michael is the second from the oldest of about 9 children. He was raised by his aunt and uncle who he very happily calls, mom and dad. They had 2 adopted children when he was taken in and then they adopted 2 more after him. He smiles

For my interview of a healthcare professional, I interviewed Todd Reynolds of the imaging department at Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton, Iowa. Todd has worked at Virginia Gay for about six years and has worked in the healthcare field for almost 44 years. Due to him working in the healthcare profession for so long, I decided to interview him to find out what has made him stay in one career field for so long.

According to Novak “Issues in Aging,” The negative backlash that both minorities and women share is minimal to the hardship we see with widows. The woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried suffers the most in her aging life, the risk of her being poverty stricken is at an all-time high. The cause of this, as mentioned before most women didn’t work so no retirement has been stored up, so when her husband is ill the benefits apply aide till he dies, once the husband’s funds are depleted widows have little to nothing to live off of. She must then look to her children to provide if the children are unable to provide widows may suffer poverty till

I chose David Quiroz as an interviewee do to his residential experience living in Boys Town during his youth. He is a 48-year-old Hispanic man who prefers to be referred to as he/him. I met him in my tour of Boys Town on Halsted, I initially approached him asking him if he was familiar with the area? He answered in a friendly manner that he previously lived there in his youth and where did I need direction to. I introduced myself and asked if I can take a couple of minutes of his time to answer a few questions regarding the community, since I was doing a community assessment for educational purposes. So, I asked him his name and mentioned I’d only use his initials for confidentiality and to voice his stake for the community. He responded and

After interviewing Joe, I decided to interview a student that has visited three times the Counseling Center. My interviewee’s name is Maryam Mirzaei. She is 26 years old and identifies as Persian. Maryam was born in Iran and is about to transfer to California State University, Northridge. I asked her what is her definition of culture, has she ever felt excluded based on her culture or ethnic background, what she wishes people knew about her, and how has she seen Pierce incorporate diversity on campus. Maryam stated her cultural background is her way of living. Because of her Persian roots, she celebrates a lot of Persian holidays. They remind her who she is and where her ethnic values come from. She feels comfortable knowing that in a lot of

I interviewed a Brazilian psychologist. Dr. Nastia Branca Bernadelli Lacerda is a licensed school and clinical psychologist. Doctor Lacerda has been in the clinical and school practice for ten years. She works at a Christian school and also she has a private practice located in the state of Parana. In Brazil, a student become a licensed psychologist after ten years of studying and practice. Lacerda is a Christian counselor who integrates biblical truths as ethical and moral values , such as respect, education, and kindness. “These are biblical truths worked in day by day practice, without necessarily quote the Bible or any doctrine” (personal interview, July 24, 2015). Despite of the fact that I found interesting and agree with Lacerda’s integration

In order to find out the solution to my hypothesis I would have to collect data so that I would be able to analyze it. There are two ways that I would collect data. The first way that I would collect data is though a questionnaire. By giving a person a questionnaire I feel as though I am more likely to have honest feedback. There are many advantages to giving a questionnaire to receive feedback. Some advantages are that it is normally more quicker to collect information from the questionnaire rather than any other for of data collecting, it is easy analyze and that it is more likely to receive honest feedback because the person can compete the questionnaire whenever they feel like they want to. I really like the questionnaire method mainly

Lastly, I asked Maria what her social life looked like nowadays. She explained to me that after she became a widow, she felt a great loss in her life; she had to readjust her life because her loved one was gone. There were times where she wanted to give up on everything, she became depresses, and lonely from the absence of her husband. She decided not to date after her husband died because the way she was raised prohibit remarriage or being with someone other than her husband. However Maria never felt the necessity of looking for another partner. Maria mentioned me that she truly enjoys her time visiting friends and her family members. Maria said that she has gotten closer with her younger sister. They spend time together going shopping or going to the parks to distract themselves. Maria also mentioned that she tries to live a life

The aim in social research interviews is that the interviewer elicits all different kinds of information from the interviewee/respondent. The information may include the interviewees’ own behavior, attitudes, norms, beliefs, and values.