Tuesday, January 20, 2009

In Class Sources of Data

The culture that I'm considering studying is a ski resort, Swiss Valley, that I use to go to when I was apart of my high school's ski club. Like Rick Zollo's piece I could consider interviewing some of the "regulars" at Swiss Valley and people not so familiar with Swiss. I could also interview some of the workers. It would also be a possibility to observe the ski lodge and the hills for a couple of hours. I'm not exactly sure what texts I could use as research considering Swiss Valley is a local ski resort. I could possibly use articles that focus on other, more popular, ski resorts. As far as behavior, patterns, and rituals go, I think there would be a wide range of things to find. The behavior really depends on the age of the people I may be observing. The only difficulty I can think of when it comes to interviewing people at Swiss is that some of the teenagers act stuck-up and immature.

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