Family, Religion, and School: A Close Look on Faith Based Education Group
Yara Roberts
Wichita Area Technical College
My group of observation, is a group of people unified most of the time by the same point of view, their religion, values, and, through the common good of their child education. However, for this project, the approach was in the field, participant observation, which according to Macionis, 2014, is a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities. In addition to carrying this research, I kept my daily routine, dropping and picking my children from school, weekly volunteer work at school, as well many extra-curricular activities and attending prayer services. …show more content…
The importance of status within the church and school environment. The master status, such as a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life is very present in this group, and of course, we have the master status of the church’s priest. People seeks his recognition and attention constantly. Consequently, this social interaction, brings an achieved status in the community, such as the one provided to be involved with a person of great importance. Therefore, the same happens with families with more economic power or the importance in the community, and can be exemplify by an occasion when I witness, an exchange of words between a school employee and a new family, when she said hi to a passerby student in the hall, and looking to the family by her side, she made the comment:” Oh, that girl…she is a sweetheart, her dad’s owns…(saying the name of the business). Do you know? As in…(again naming his business)”. Here is an incredible example, of the power of status in somebody vision of social stratification. The other part were least interested of who or what kind of family this girl came from, and of course this employee was very eager to use her knowledge of this family as a social status on her own. Another master status example will be the principal, and teachers of the school. All of them possess their own level of
Yara Roberts
Wichita Area Technical College
My group of observation, is a group of people unified most of the time by the same point of view, their religion, values, and, through the common good of their child education. However, for this project, the approach was in the field, participant observation, which according to Macionis, 2014, is a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities. In addition to carrying this research, I kept my daily routine, dropping and picking my children from school, weekly volunteer work at school, as well many extra-curricular activities and attending prayer services. …show more content…
The importance of status within the church and school environment. The master status, such as a status that has special importance for social identity, often shaping a person’s entire life is very present in this group, and of course, we have the master status of the church’s priest. People seeks his recognition and attention constantly. Consequently, this social interaction, brings an achieved status in the community, such as the one provided to be involved with a person of great importance. Therefore, the same happens with families with more economic power or the importance in the community, and can be exemplify by an occasion when I witness, an exchange of words between a school employee and a new family, when she said hi to a passerby student in the hall, and looking to the family by her side, she made the comment:” Oh, that girl…she is a sweetheart, her dad’s owns…(saying the name of the business). Do you know? As in…(again naming his business)”. Here is an incredible example, of the power of status in somebody vision of social stratification. The other part were least interested of who or what kind of family this girl came from, and of course this employee was very eager to use her knowledge of this family as a social status on her own. Another master status example will be the principal, and teachers of the school. All of them possess their own level of