Starbucks Observation Paper

The observation that I participated in was at the Starbucks Coffee in the Wanek Center. The lighting is dark, especially where everyone is doing homework right outside the Starbucks area. The lighting is the brightest at the back wall where the people are making the Starbucks drinks. The sound is quiet outside the Starbucks area, but loud where people are getting their drinks. The energy is a mixture of people laughing, while having a good time with friends and others look focus while doing homework. There was a combination of smell coffee, cookies, and fermium. The age is freshman students to seniors in college, besides some of the people working at Starbucks and there are few adults here. There are mostly white people white people and less than a handful of other types of races, such as african american. The socioeconomic status is middle to upper class, besides …show more content…
Others are quiet and working on homework. It is appropriate to act this way by laughing because people do not want to sit by someone who is going to get them mad all the time. It appropriate to act this way by being quiet and working on homework or else none of your homework may get accomplished. Everyone is dressed appropriately for the type of weather it is outside. It is not too cold, but not too hot outside. Everyone has a long sleeve shirt on or a light coat on which is reasonable for the type of weather it is outside.

A lot of girls are laughing with their group of friends. This is a norm in our society because it is a type of behavior that is acceptable to act with a group of friends and acts as a common function on how we should behave in society. The value is it can lead to happiness because when people laugh it leads to the opposite direction of being depressed; straight to cheerfulness. If this norm did not exist everyone could either be extremely serious and not want to be funny when they are with