1. Spend 1 hour observing a setting where both men and women are working, playing, and/or interacting with others. Pay attention to how space and activity are divided up among the people. 2. Take careful field notes on the following: a) Setting — Date, time, location b) Number of people – give a total and also a breakdown by gender, age, and any other characteristic that seems meaningful in this setting. 3) Spaces — Where were people clustered and/or activities taking place (e.g., living room, kitchen, swing-set, sandbox, bar, dance floor, basketball court, front stoop)? 4) Groupings of people – How were people divided up into smaller groups or clusters? What characteristics seemed to determine which people were together in a space – gender, age, occupation, relationship, etc.? 5) Activities – What were the people you observed actually doing (working, resting, dancing, talking, lifting weights, etc.)? Describe any patterns you observed according to characteristics such as gender, age, etc. Was there a clear pattern? Were there exceptions? 6) Change — Did the distribution of people in space or the activities people were doing change during the time of your observation? 3. Comment on the notes of a classmate (2 pts). a. Present your notes on the field exercise including the final written report .In the final written report (10 pts), which follows the assignment’s rubric in the weekly folder, students will write up their notes as a report. They will also discuss whether this exercise was or was not consistent with the following hypotheses: 1. Gender division of space. (Specifically, did the observe men controlling public space and women concentrated in domestic spaces?) 2. Gender division of labor. (Specifically, did the student observe women being assigned most of the work of taking care of things and of people?) Notes : 1. The setting that you should choose should be on the train. 2. You have to include your field notes with the actual final report. 3. No plagiarism
