Domenica Suri
ADV3500
Sunday 19, 2017
Assignment 4
According to the class, observation is known to be a systematic data collection approach during which researchers use all of their senses to examine people in their natural setting or natural occurring situation (McDonald, 2017, pp.1). When I started this observation, I didn't know what I was looking for, so I just did the question “What is going on here?” Doing this question, it opens the possibility of a lot of things. First, this is such a broad question, so all the stuff that was happening in there seem to be very relevant to the topic. Maybe if I had a particular issue to focus, I didn't have been worry of each small detail. However, because it is an observation I think that everything has to been relevant don't matter what the question is. This issue was perfect for the place that I was because it was something that I actually wanted to know. Sometimes you are in a place, and the people are in their world, so you actually want to know what people are thinking and what they are doing. …show more content…
No one knew that they were observed or that I was the observer. Most of the people were in their own world, so they didn't even notice that they have been observed by me. It was kind of weird to keep staring at the same people and to write down all of their small actions or things that they did. I was glad that everyone was in their own world looking to their computer or their phone that I was never an overt observation. I was also a non-participant observation because I was observing the participants without actively participating, so people were doing their stuff without been interrupt by
ADV3500
Sunday 19, 2017
Assignment 4
According to the class, observation is known to be a systematic data collection approach during which researchers use all of their senses to examine people in their natural setting or natural occurring situation (McDonald, 2017, pp.1). When I started this observation, I didn't know what I was looking for, so I just did the question “What is going on here?” Doing this question, it opens the possibility of a lot of things. First, this is such a broad question, so all the stuff that was happening in there seem to be very relevant to the topic. Maybe if I had a particular issue to focus, I didn't have been worry of each small detail. However, because it is an observation I think that everything has to been relevant don't matter what the question is. This issue was perfect for the place that I was because it was something that I actually wanted to know. Sometimes you are in a place, and the people are in their world, so you actually want to know what people are thinking and what they are doing. …show more content…
No one knew that they were observed or that I was the observer. Most of the people were in their own world, so they didn't even notice that they have been observed by me. It was kind of weird to keep staring at the same people and to write down all of their small actions or things that they did. I was glad that everyone was in their own world looking to their computer or their phone that I was never an overt observation. I was also a non-participant observation because I was observing the participants without actively participating, so people were doing their stuff without been interrupt by