I’m using analysis as my primary research method:
- I want to look more into and explore the reasoning behind why students put on different personas and are the limitations that encourage them to do so. I want to see if there is a similar reasoning’s as to why students find it necessary to alter their personalities depending on their surroundings.
- I plan discovery this by observing individuals in different settings, interviewing them on how they feel in certain locations and why they think alter their behavior and finally I hope to combine my findings with the works of Unnatural Acts, Self-Presentation, and People Reading and hopefully come to some conclusion as to what a probable cause may be.
- I’m going to be observing & interviewing students at SU.
- I plan on observing students in different classrooms and areas around campus like the dining halls or in the dorms and also by holding a personal interview with them in a private space after, of course, I get their permission to ask them my questions.
- My bias on my topic is that most people don’t really know why they act differently when they are around certain people or when they are in specific places. I would assume they would just think they do it to fit in or not think they are doing at all or they never change, it would be the people around them who change.
- I would make sure that I wouldn’t place my personal opinions upon each person that I interview and will do my best to not completely create false accusations when I am observing individuals.
- I expect to gain greater knowledge on human behavior and how our society tends to shape the way we act in different circumstances.
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