I'm a Junior in high school and I have to do some kind of sociological experiment in my sociology class that has someting to do with testing or observing our society's norms or values. Something wierd or creative or thought provoking, etc...
Can anyone give me some ideas of something I could do? All my ideas are terrible.......
2006-09-10 15:52:29 · 6 answers · asked by Seta Akamatsu 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
How about you take a group of introverts and a group of extroverts and put them into the each others circumstance. List the traits of each and have each group play out the other. I'm sure the introverts would find this really hard, but would the extraverts be affected by lone time/quiet pursuits etc.? I'd like to know if each group would remain changed afterwards.
2006-09-10 15:58:00 · answer #1 · answered by obenypopstar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many years ago i had to do the same thing. I took a shoe-box put some rocks in it, then wrapped it up like a birthday present. Next I set it out in the road where it was visible, but a definite effort was required to retrieve it. If you have a camcorder and don't get ran over by a car, you will wind up with a hilarious video!!! It's amazing what a sweet little old lady will do to get that gift.
2006-09-10 23:04:16 · answer #2 · answered by Jedi Baptist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a big red button (like a momentary pushbutton or an equipment safety switch) and put it on a piece of plywood. Put a sign above it that says, "DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON" and put it in a public place where you can have a hidden camera recording people walking by. See who looks at the sign and studies the button, see who ignores it, and then see who actually is compelled to push it anyway.
2006-09-10 22:57:19 · answer #3 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a nice ripe pineapple and cut it into chunks which look just like canned pineapple chunks.
Get enough of both (fresh and canned ) so that each member of your class can have one of each.
Put each type (fresh and canned) in identical containers.
Tell your classmates that you will give them one of each in either left or right hand.
Tell them that all of them have fresh in the same hand as every other classmate, canned in the same hand as every other classmate.
Have them taste each sample.
Them go down the line, asking each one which hand held the fresh, which the canned.
Probably, peer pressure will cause nearly all of them to give the same answer.
2006-09-10 23:04:01 · answer #4 · answered by lifeloom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could look at the sociology of your class in general. How they relate to their cliques, eachother, their peers...that might not be a bad idea.
2006-09-10 22:55:16 · answer #5 · answered by robyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start here and have fun!
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/
2006-09-10 22:58:29 · answer #6 · answered by MRM 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋