Fast Food Observations

Interactions in Different Food Places
In the beginning of this semester the class was given the task to create a group project. The groups were to contain three to five students. These students then decided on a topic they wanted to observe. Our group decided to observe the interactions in different food places on campus. Once all the groups had their topic, we were all informed that each individual student had to observe eight to ten hours of people interacting within our topic. Once all the observations were complete the groups were meant to reform and create a presentation that would inform the class on their findings. The rest of this paper contains all of our group 's protocols and results.
Before we started observation, we had to answer some questions. These questions can be broken down simple into who, what, where, when, how, and who is observing when. We decided that we were going to be observing …show more content…
Our hypothesis was that the number of students eating at Lane University Center would be greater than the number of students eating at Chesapeake dining hall. We made this hypothesis because we believed that Lane was the students’ favorite place to hang out. Since lane holds common fast food restaurants that almost all of us have been too we figured it would be more popular than Chesapeake due to the fact that it is more familiar to the students. After we were all done with our observations we came back together as a group and figured out what social theory has the biggest role in our observation. The social theory that fit the implications of our research findings was structural functionalism. Structural functionalism can be defined as how an individual views society as a system of interdependent and interrelated parts. We concluded that lane was fast, easy, and had good food, which also allows for the students to continue on with their