On any given day while passing by the campus side entrance of Martin Luther King Library, the main library of San Jose State University, one can hear loud, upbeat music playing, and if one were to look for the location of the music they would notice a group of 3-10 people rhythmically moving to the music or loudly chattering. After spotting this same activity, the group always consisting of what seemed like different people yet always in the same location, I realized that it was not a coincidence, these people were a subgroup of the university that had claimed this spot as their meeting spot.
There were many actions and visual cues that made this group stand out; As I mentioned before they played extremely loud music in a very public area, …show more content…
I decided to stay and wait to see if anyone would show up, while waiting I tried to interpret what this could mean. I ended up with three possible answers to the absence of any member in the location: it could be too hot therefore no one wanted to dance at that time, in turn all members of this group could students and had class or a job at that time, or the group was more organized than I had given them credit for and had specific meeting …show more content…
Males of the same age group would stop by and greet the two subjects with a high five and a smile and a loudly , it is important to note that the majority if not all interactions were initiated in the same manner. The subjects would chat for a minute or two, sometimes observe the dance move subject one was practicing and then leave, making the original two subjects my only permanent subjects for the majority of the time I was there. But after an hour of observation some other subjects began to show up an join subjects one and two for more than a short
There were many actions and visual cues that made this group stand out; As I mentioned before they played extremely loud music in a very public area, …show more content…
I decided to stay and wait to see if anyone would show up, while waiting I tried to interpret what this could mean. I ended up with three possible answers to the absence of any member in the location: it could be too hot therefore no one wanted to dance at that time, in turn all members of this group could students and had class or a job at that time, or the group was more organized than I had given them credit for and had specific meeting …show more content…
Males of the same age group would stop by and greet the two subjects with a high five and a smile and a loudly , it is important to note that the majority if not all interactions were initiated in the same manner. The subjects would chat for a minute or two, sometimes observe the dance move subject one was practicing and then leave, making the original two subjects my only permanent subjects for the majority of the time I was there. But after an hour of observation some other subjects began to show up an join subjects one and two for more than a short