Post-Primary Research Write-up - Week 14

Who did you interview/observe/survey? When and where did this activity take place?
The people whom i interviewed were ten random students at the Purdue University Calumet cafeteria area. This activity took place during the day time in between classes. I chose this approach because by doing random selection it eliminated some bias that the survey may have conducted.


Why did you choose this method of research? If you had the opportunity to re-do this field research, would you undertake the same research methods/interviewee/survey/observation?
I felt that this was the most efficient way to go about my method of research. I feel this way because it relates directly to the opinions of those surrounding us, which have shown me how a small average feels about the problem. If i had the opportunity to re-do anything within this survey it would be to appeal to a larger audience and with a larger amount of diversity.



How did you conduct this interview, survey, or observation?Within this interview I made i conducted a survey which I gave out to 10 random people to fill out the three questions in which I provided. The survey was a simple survey in which the people who conducted in the survey were asked to circle whichever one applied most to them based on their own opinions.

What did you learn from this research? How has this (re)shaped the way you think about your topic?
After receiving the information back about the survey conducted, it did give me more information about how people think about the the topic of direct and indirect discrimination. I was not surprised that race was one of the most dominant attributes to workplace discrimination, however I was surprised that when conducting my survey that it went half and half when I asked about if the governments laws and regulations are making a difference.

Reflection
After conducting a brief field research given out to ten people, I found interesting results to my survey that was conducted. The survey asked three basic questions: Do you find workplace discrimination to be a problem? What is the most problematic type of discrimination at the workplace? Do you think laws are regularly enforced by the government for workplace discrimination? Within the results, eight of the ten people found workplace discrimination to be a problem. For the most problematic type of discrimination, racial discrimination led with six votes, age discrimination with three votes and religious discrimination with one vote. Interestingly enough, the final question was answered half and half with five people saying laws were regulated, while the other five saying they were not. If i had the opportunity to re-do anything within this survey it would be to appeal to a larger audience and with a larger amount of diversity. I felt this approach was one of the easiest and best ways to approach the situation and receive more information for field research over direct and indirect discrimination because it was the easiest way to interact with others about the topic. Another problem however that may be presented is the bias that could have been present in the surveyors answers, with that being whether or not the responses were chosen truthfully or not. While there was only a small amount of questions asked, this information help put together the opinions of what society is most aware of with the major types of discrimination and how they are incorporated within a workplace.