For this exercise, I stayed in the MD. Anderson Library in the UH main campus at 11:30. I sat down at the last computer, which is nearest the none-computer area and the windows. First, I had not decided to do this observation at that time, but a yelling voice of an African American guy made me feel curious. That led me open the Microsoft Word screen on computer and begin making my public space observation, an assignment in Sociology 1300 course.
This was not the first time I feel curious to something around me, but this was the first time I put myself in a sociologist’s shoe. I acted like a sociologist in professional way as typing very details any observation. I forced myself to be a “professional peeping Tom”, but I was scared a bit because
This was not the first time I feel curious to something around me, but this was the first time I put myself in a sociologist’s shoe. I acted like a sociologist in professional way as typing very details any observation. I forced myself to be a “professional peeping Tom”, but I was scared a bit because