Sociology Question

Complete 30 min. of participant observation based upon the film and use assigned reading to analyze your observations.

Themes to Focus On
week 12 Space and Place: community, environment, urban/rural, cities, gentrification, YouTube/community online spaces

    Assignment Overview

    There should be absolutely 0% plagiarism (paper is reviewed with plagiarism/AI check)

    – Please do not use so sophisticated, elegant, difficult, BOT sounding, AI generated looking word choice.

    – Use proper grammar, regular word choice as long as it makes sense and its written academically correctly. I WANT LENGTHY PARAGRAPHS.

    You will conduct a participant observation based on a film assigned each week. The goal is to gather data that helps answer a guiding question related to one or more of the course themes above.

    • Settings you can observe within the films: workplace, home, social gatherings, classrooms, online communities, protests, local organizations, etc.
    • Important: This is not an interviewyou are observing interactions as they naturally occur.

    FILM FOR ASSIGNMENTHooligan Sparrow: Girls and Women’s Rights in China: ($5 FROM TOTAL PAYMENT ARE FOR THE RENT OF FILM ON YOUTUBE)

    READING TO USE FROM WEEK 12 – De Haan, Francisca. 2013. Eugnie Cotton, Pak Chong-Ae, and Claudia Jones: Rethinking Transnational Feminism and International Politics Journal of Womens History 25(4):17489. (Text ends on p. 183) (ATTACHED BELOW)

      Guiding Question Examples

      Your guiding question should connect to the themes.

      Examples:

      • How does gentrification affect social interactions in my neighborhood?
      • How do rural and urban experiences shape activism in local communities?
      • How do social media beauty communities reinforce or challenge gender norms?
      • How do technology and race intersect in online influencer communities?

      You will not be interviewing people but rather observing and interacting to gather info to help you answer your guiding question.

      Your fieldnote should be structured into four main sections: (Jottings, Description, Analysis, Reflection), plus a coding section. Each section should be 1 page double spaced (4 double spaced pages total, ~1000 words).

        1. Jottings

        • Quickly record observations during or immediately after your 30-minute observation.
        • Use bullet points to note everything you notice: sights, sounds, smells, interactions, behaviors.
        • Include small detailsit doesnt have to be polished.

        Length: page single spaced / 1 page double spaced

        Description

        • Turn your jottings into a more detailed narrative.
        • Include all five senses if possible (what you saw, heard, smelled, tasted, touched).
        • Focus on how the observation relates to your guiding question.

        Length: page single spaced / 1 page double spaced

        2. Description

        • Turn your jottings into a more detailed narrative.
        • Include all five senses if possible (what you saw, heard, smelled, tasted, touched).
        • Focus on how the observation relates to your guiding question.

        Length: page single spaced / 1 page double spaced

        3. Analysis

        • Use at least 3 course readings (including 1 from the week you submit your fieldnote).
        • Connect your observations to themes from your readings.
        • Structure your analysis as follows:
          1. Create sub-sections for each theme you coded (see coding section).
          2. Use specific observations from your jottings/description to illustrate the theme.
          3. Reference 3 readings to explain or challenge your observations (paraphrase + in-text citation).
          4. Answer these questions:
            • What do your observations reveal about course themes?
            • How do different perspectives shape understanding of local/global issues?
            • Does your observation confirm or challenge the readings?
        • Works Cited: Include at least 3 course readings in . Use specific and accurate page numbers in your in-text citations.

        Length: page single spaced / 1 page double spaced

        4. Reflection

        • Discuss your personal experience of doing this observation:
          • What did you learn?
          • What surprised you?
          • What would you do differently next time?
          • How did the assignment affect your understanding of the course themes?

        Length: page single spaced / 1 page double spaced

        5. Coding Your Fieldnote

        • Identify 4-5 central themes in your observation and highlight them using colors.
        • Examples of course-related themes:
          • Local/global activism
          • Rural vs. urban experiences
          • Gentrification
          • Religion, queerness, sexuality, Islam
          • Beauty and online communities
          • Technology and gender
          • Race/gender/influencers
          • Local and transnational feminisms
          • International politics

        Coding Tips:

        • Be specific: e.g., instead of gender, code women restricted from leadership roles.
        • Highlight only relevant detailsnot everything.
        • Similar themes to your weeks 9-11 interview codes can be reused if appropriate.

        • Submission

          • Submit your fieldnote including:
            • Jottings
            • Description
            • Analysis
            • Reflection
            • Coding/Color legend
            • Works Cited page

          THE FOLLOWING IS JUST AN EXAMPLE:

          • This is an example (ATTACHED BELOW) of how the fieldnote can be used on a film. You will also be basing your fieldnote on a film. It does a good job of describing the scenes in detail, coding for themes and color-coding those themes.

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