Ethnography Proposal
The subculture I am considering to study for my ethnography paper is the mothers who are part of the ECFE program in New Prague. They are young mothers who get together in small groups to talk about many various things: mainly being young mothers. The ECFE program is for parents with preschool children. Many events are planned for families to enjoy together, and previously I didn’t even know that there were smaller parent (or mother) groups that got together.
I plan on doing the research for this paper with Ellie and she brought this possible subculture to my attention. Ellie’s sister, Lindsay, proposed that we study this subculture because she is part of one of the groups and thought we would both enjoy spending time with the women in them. This subculture interests me because I would like to become a mother someday, and I think it would be a good learning experience for me. I chose this subculture partially because I couldn’t really think of another one, and when Ellie suggested it, it sounded interesting and fun. One bias I have coming into this project may be that I am expecting many of the mothers to be stay-at-home moms who don’t have anything better to do during the day. Especially if the group we observe is during the day. I know this is unreasonable but aren’t all biases? Other than that I don’t think I’m very biased because I can’t really be biased against a group of mothers.
Some obstacles I may run into along while working on the project are finding a time that a group meets that also works into my schedule. I know some of the groups meet in the middle of the day and I won’t be able to attend these meetings because I will be in school. Just finding time to do this project is the major obstacle I’ll run into, but I think that by making sure I start early and continue to work on it through the trimester I will be able to finish it.
I may interview Lindsay, Ellie’s sister, since she is part of a group, but right now I don’t really know of any others I could interview. I haven’t been in contact with anyone else from the groups or the organization. To begin my project I will need to know the times and dates of the groups so I can attend the meetings. I don’t feel I will need to do much research on the subculture because I have been around mothers before and have some knowledge of them. Also, I can’t think of anything that I would do to offend the mothers in these groups.
I plan on doing the research for this paper with Ellie and she brought this possible subculture to my attention. Ellie’s sister, Lindsay, proposed that we study this subculture because she is part of one of the groups and thought we would both enjoy spending time with the women in them. This subculture interests me because I would like to become a mother someday, and I think it would be a good learning experience for me. I chose this subculture partially because I couldn’t really think of another one, and when Ellie suggested it, it sounded interesting and fun. One bias I have coming into this project may be that I am expecting many of the mothers to be stay-at-home moms who don’t have anything better to do during the day. Especially if the group we observe is during the day. I know this is unreasonable but aren’t all biases? Other than that I don’t think I’m very biased because I can’t really be biased against a group of mothers.
Some obstacles I may run into along while working on the project are finding a time that a group meets that also works into my schedule. I know some of the groups meet in the middle of the day and I won’t be able to attend these meetings because I will be in school. Just finding time to do this project is the major obstacle I’ll run into, but I think that by making sure I start early and continue to work on it through the trimester I will be able to finish it.
I may interview Lindsay, Ellie’s sister, since she is part of a group, but right now I don’t really know of any others I could interview. I haven’t been in contact with anyone else from the groups or the organization. To begin my project I will need to know the times and dates of the groups so I can attend the meetings. I don’t feel I will need to do much research on the subculture because I have been around mothers before and have some knowledge of them. Also, I can’t think of anything that I would do to offend the mothers in these groups.
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