Kresge-Ford Student Lounge Analysis

Using the approach of ethnography, the cultural scene of the Kresge-Ford student lounge will be explored. In notion with this paper, ethnography involves conducting detailed research on a setting of everyday life (or group) by observing at a distance with partial communication with the individuals present. Culture is the learned distinction of what is considered acceptable and unacceptable behavior. And cultural scene is the shared experience between a number of people. These concepts will be analyzed in relation to the Kresge-Ford student lounge with the overall goal of finding out: How important the Kresge-Ford lounge is to students? The paper will be split into several parts: analyzing the cultural scene (the student lounge), examining the present students’ behavior, conducting informal interviews with the students, analyzing the field work methods, and finally concluding with the response to the question.
The student lounge seems to be a place not many students discuss around campus; because of this, it makes for an interesting cultural scene to analyze. The student lounge is located on the second floor of the Kresge-Ford building at the College …show more content…
Most of the information that was sourced from conversing with the students, could be concluded just by watching them. Their body language exuded comfort. The way some focused so avidly on their laptops showed that it was a place where they could really concentrate and focus. In addition, with the way some students sat on the couches with their feet up, a few eating and conversing, it was clear that the space was almost like a living room to them; a casual place to just simply lounge. The informal interviews were also a progressive form of field work for this cultural scene; from this method, the information gathered from the students’ body language was confirmed. The students really love and appreciate the lounge, it is a like a getaway area for