Social Deviance Project
Operation.
We used a camera to record secretly peoples reactions. One variable was the time that we went to Ikea. First thing when it opened so this meant that there wouldn't be that many people passing by. Another variable was how close we placed Juan to the main thoroughfare of Ikea. It would have been better to have more time after ten o'clock sot hat we could gather more observations on more people. Unfortunately We had to change our original experiment to this because of too many cops on the trolleys. This was an unpredictable variable in our previous experiment.
Findings and Analysis
We observed that the majority of people did not even look over. We had only 1 person at Ikea and when we tried it briefly at Lowes the employees looked over and said "Hi, Comfy?" and kept on going. We thought that more people would notice a kid sleeping on a couch in a store possibly kick us out of the store.
Hypothesis
If someone were to sleep on the furniture at Ikea, people will look at you with a strange stare because at Ikea the purpose is to simply try out and look at the furniture, not to sleep on the items.
Research Design (Research Method)
A experimental observation was used, the design however can be redone by setting up more cameras and changing the date of the experiment and the time of day, another possibility that could help argue the hypothesis further would have been to sleep on something that was more visible and stood out more to peoples eyes. Only a select few were tested during the experiment, it was the few that went into the store and walked around however we had a minimal amount of people due to the fact that we had to film the experiment in the morning which is not the best time to find an enormous amount of people going into the store. It is very likely that the findings can be generalized to other populations because it is the same store and the same rules for every store and the same norms with the store.
Research Problem
Is not normal seeing some one sleeping on a bed in a furniture store, actually you never see a person doing that. It is only abnormal because no body does that, is not a crime nether there is nothing wrong with it, is only that society never does that., first of all mostly everyone has a bed in their house and second the store closes at a certain time. The propose of the research is to capture the reactions of the people shopping in there while they see one of our teammates sleeping on a bed inside the store.
Summary and Conclusion
In our experiment we got reactions from people inside the store that we expected, we tought that an employe was going to wake Juan up kick him out of the store. The experiment was done in the morning exactly when the store opened, so there were many people inside the store, maybe we could have got different results if we have done the experiment were the store had more clients.
