Sociological Mindfulness

Sorry this is late! I thought I had already done a blog, I'm really not even sure if I'll get credit for this, but I'll still do it! So last week we did a sociological experiment. My group tested to see the typical student's purpose of working to obtain money at Stevenson High School. Whether it be out of necessity or luxury. Our hypothesis said that the majority of Stevenson High School Students had jobs solely to have extra spending money on things they wanted rather than needed. As my partner and I were creating the survey and asking the questions I realized how just a few weeks of class had already made me act more sociologically mindful. Rather than asking questions like "What is your gender?" and having two answers: boy or girl, I asked, "What gender do you identify yourself as? and included 3 answers: boy, girl, and other. This new mindfulness also occurred while I surveyed people. When we arrived at the question about ethnicity, rather than looking at their ethnic features and skin color and answering it myself, I took the time and consideration to ask. Although some chuckled at the question, replying, "I'm obviously caucasian, do I look black?" a few surprised me, being latino rather than caucasian or half of something. This new sociological mindfulness has crept up on me from just a few weeks of class and a short amount of learning, I can't wait to see what it will do for me and make me observe as the semester continues.