Thursday, January 22, 2009
My subculture is going to be Smokers. My field sites will be the designated smoking areas around the Ball State campus, with the majority of my time being spent at the smoking area next to the Lafollette complex. I have been there a few times, and there are some benches out there, and there is also a pick nick table out there as well. I am somewhat of an insider, seeing as I smoke on occasion, so what I hope to learn is why the people smoke, why and when they started, any plans of quitting, do they know the health hazards, and other questions of that nature. I really want to take a look at the psychological reasons as to why college kids smoke. Is it the cool thing to do? Is it a stress reliever? Or is there other reasons as to why they do it?
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This sounds like a good subculture to do. It helps that you are somewhat of an insider. One problem you might come across is that if you are doing the whole smoking culture, the field sites you are attending might only have a certain age group rather than other age groups. Overall it sounds like a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI would also visit the other smoking areas around campus. The one by Lafollette is pretty much all freshman, so that might help you get a broader age range.
ReplyDeleteI think that this will be an interesting paper because you are an insider and somewhat of an outsider. I think to make the paper more exciting you should visit several smoking sections around campus to get a wider range of people.
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