Sociology: Lost Letter, Poverty, Marriage
Michelle Wilcox
Sociology
12/06/12
Final Project
Before the presidential election, between Barak Obama and Mitt Romney, we were assigned a group project. In this project we had to secretively leave a “lost letter” on the ground, for a random person to walk by, in a public area, and at COD, and observe the outcome. The letters contained nothing of importance, but simply stamped with either presidential candidate, and addressed to our professor. We had to record weather or not the passerby’s did any of the following: Glance, Ignore, Stop and look, Picked up the letter, etc. Following the results of the pedestrians, we were supposed to hand them a survey that asked them personal political questions. Some of the questions were the political position they stood closest to weather that was Democratic, independent, and republican, none or something other than the following. Another question was which candidate they were leaning towards in the 2012 election, Obama, Romney, or neither. They were asked what their reaction was to our “lost letter’ and if they were walking alone or with someone else. They finally were asked if they had any relation to College Of Dupage and if they were interested in receiving the results of this study.
On a Sunday night, around 7 o’ clock, where the temperature was dropping and the wind was picking up, my partner, Jack, and I, went downtown Naperville to start our Lost letter project. We dropped the letters along the street Washington and Jefferson Ave. While sitting on a bench in the distance, I observed, that on this particular night, it was more common for the passerby’s to not pay too much attention to the letter. We recorded that the majority of everyone who actually saw the letter, continued walking. While recording, Jack was standing near the letter handing out the surveys to the passerby’s. Our first response to this study failed, but not completely, due to a women seeing us drop the letter and kindly asked if this was our
Sociology
12/06/12
Final Project
Before the presidential election, between Barak Obama and Mitt Romney, we were assigned a group project. In this project we had to secretively leave a “lost letter” on the ground, for a random person to walk by, in a public area, and at COD, and observe the outcome. The letters contained nothing of importance, but simply stamped with either presidential candidate, and addressed to our professor. We had to record weather or not the passerby’s did any of the following: Glance, Ignore, Stop and look, Picked up the letter, etc. Following the results of the pedestrians, we were supposed to hand them a survey that asked them personal political questions. Some of the questions were the political position they stood closest to weather that was Democratic, independent, and republican, none or something other than the following. Another question was which candidate they were leaning towards in the 2012 election, Obama, Romney, or neither. They were asked what their reaction was to our “lost letter’ and if they were walking alone or with someone else. They finally were asked if they had any relation to College Of Dupage and if they were interested in receiving the results of this study.
On a Sunday night, around 7 o’ clock, where the temperature was dropping and the wind was picking up, my partner, Jack, and I, went downtown Naperville to start our Lost letter project. We dropped the letters along the street Washington and Jefferson Ave. While sitting on a bench in the distance, I observed, that on this particular night, it was more common for the passerby’s to not pay too much attention to the letter. We recorded that the majority of everyone who actually saw the letter, continued walking. While recording, Jack was standing near the letter handing out the surveys to the passerby’s. Our first response to this study failed, but not completely, due to a women seeing us drop the letter and kindly asked if this was our