If I Were To Redo My Study Differently?

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With all of the information given we can see how it is important to conduct research and interact with different human beings. We can see that not everyone have the same mindset especially due to their different class categorization. Most of us would expect the working class to react to certain situations differently like the one with their kids. We would think that they would want their child to become better and be an overachiever whereas they want the opposite. Then you have the typical upper-class women and middle-class women. To sum it all up, we can see that each different classes react differently with different things and discuss things within people in their own social class. (Yodanis, 2006) There are some similarities within …show more content…
In addition, I would extend the age group of the people I choose. For example, I would choose anyone of any age to interpret their behavior. I would choose another popular coffee shop located in New York City that’s near a busy area like business offices. I would be more descriptive about the person I choose to analyze, I would mention how they look so my audience can have a better imagination of what to expect. They can visualize the person acting the way they act at the coffee shop. In addition, I might try combining class and interact with my participants like Carrie Yodanis did. Which made her observation interesting when you read it. In conclusion, I would have a longer time session to analyze since the one I had already performed was short. With Carrie Yodanis study, I would do a lot of things differently. Although, she is a fan of observing only females I would involve the class of both male and female. I would observe more coffee shops in different areas to see how the different classes act. For example, I would observe a coffee shop in a rural area and another in an urban area. Instead of performing the research for an entire month I would probably perform it for a week instead. I would analyze more things instead of just how the classes are different like the way people behave and try to figure out why they act in a particular

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