- group before or after class: bring lunch or dinner or snacks
- group on a Thurs night - out somewhere
- group on a Friday night - out somewhere
- group on a Saturday: picnic
- strip club
- church or synagogue or Buddhist temple
- cultural event: Holocaust Museum
- sporting event
- political event: maybe the Thursday occupy event on campus next week
- switch genders for a couple of days
- costume up to create a new social identity: handicap, pregnant, mother, dog owner walking around and at a training class, upscale to downscale, etc.
- sit in a court - watch proceedings
- ride with police - "ride along"
- gay club - maybe twice
- more to come
Wednesday, February 22
observation - groups of 3-6
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oh - sporting event. that didn't come up in class. that could qualify - but ONLY from ppl who have never attended a (big) sporting event.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in observing a synagogue worship. I noticed that LA has a big Jewish community. I am fascinated with Judaism and being Catholic, I would like to experience another religion.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind doing this one too. But my only day off is Saturdays...do they have anything on Saturdays? I could probably make it from Oceanside on this day if there is.
DeleteHa! do they have anything on Saturdays! Saturdays IS the Sabbath! That is the day you go to Temple.
DeleteOh...I knew that...lol
DeleteI know that they have a Friday night service and a Saturday early morning service. I'm looking into some around Culver City.
DeleteI have a friend in San Francisco who got a group together (and raised some money) and created 100 sack lunches for the homeless and then they went around and passed them out. Which I think would be awesome except for the collecting money part ..... but maybe that could be part of it. Maybe as a class we could all stand outside for 1/2 hour and see if we could collect $200. I think it cost him about $2 per lunch.
ReplyDeletehow fun! also what a great thing to do to get, say, an article in the LA Times or at least the Cal State Paper about how to make a nutritious bag lunch. just coming up with the money and the lunch would be great. a "Master Paper" out of that would be to make a "recipe" for how sociology classes could do this.
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25 Sociology students
1 dollar each
10 dollars from the teacher
3 dollars each from friends
1 dollar each from parents
3 dollars from each from "begging" at school, on the campus streets
... ok somebody add that up ...
then
somebody create the ideal lunch
the 5-10 students who are going to do this divide up the shopping and cooking and packing
the lunches are distributed
notebooks are readied
Go!
Write the whole first part of the LATimes article as a recipe .... oh, what fun! Stories!
What a great recipe!! I also thought of some of us going to Trader joes to ask for donation or peanut butter and jelly and bread ...... if everyone went to their closest Trader Joes ..... just to get the experience of asking. TJs is usually pretty good about this type of stuff. When I was president of a local Little League they would always come through with "stuff" ..... they just aren't big into donating money. But, what's the difference? We would need food not money. My friend in SF did peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, a candy or little packet of cookies, a carton of juice, maybe an apple sauce ..... anyway, all stuff that you could prepackage except for making the sandwiches. That was the only time consuming thing (but not that time consuming) and they they just did a line and put everything in. They just didn't want things that could spoil ..... like no fruit, no milk etc. I would totally bake homemade chocolate chip cookies if someone wants to do this with me.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of being a vegan for a few days maybe even a week if I can last that long.
ReplyDeletethis would probably be more personal than sociological - what do you think? how could it be made into something sociological to observe? it's a wonderful thing to do and has sociological implications, but not sure about observation.
DeleteI am really interested in going on a ride along. iwould never do that ...ever, but its perfect time to face my fear of cops and see through their lenz. If anyone else is from the day class let me know :), or so i can find something else to do.
ReplyDeleteMT- how many people make a group?
the ride alongs sounds like fun. Or museums to how about the museum of tolerance?
ReplyDeleteI have never been to a museum. I would like to go to the Museum of tolerance.
ReplyDeleteI am also interested doing a ride along, however i asked a friend that is in law enforcement about the ride alongs, and he mentioned that because of budget cuts his district was not doing it at this time, but he will find out a little more info for me. I will keep everyone posted
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