Since the first class, this project has been idling away in my brain. Having a broad range of topics floating through and sorting them out with the pros and cons of each has not been an easy task. I am passionate about alot of things; candle making, quilting, reading to name a few. None of these things did I really feel as if I could turn into "major" paper.
Saturday morning when I recieved the email about this blog's topic, my brain went into over drive wondering frantically if I was going to be able to narrow it down to just a few and then choose. I calmed myself down, told myself that its just a preliminary goal and could be changed, albeit soon. (As I do not want to be the student that ended up with no clear paper at the due date!)
That being said, I think I have finally narrowed down a few topics. One being brought to my mind when I was reading Mr. Zollo's Iowa 80, and writing my response in the discussion portion. While truck drivers are a major neccesaity in our culture, so are their wives and families, but I don't really want to write about them. My mind went to the families that are left behind when our soliders depart for war or other assignments that thier families cannot follow along, and more than that cannot be told where thier loved one is going. I am talking about the wives and husbands who sacrafice daily in the honor of our country. They are a society among themselves, with a pecking order and strong traditions.
My other idea has now escaped my mind - which means I have learned a very valuable lesson already from and about fieldworking! NOTES! NOTES NOTES! I am going to close this for the moment and see if I can regroup my line of thought.
I'm back, thoughts back in order.
My second culture type is that of HVAC Technicians and what they call "The Circle of Techs". What is a circle of techs? It is the relationship among the technicians and their code of conduct that is not written in words rather than the unspoken rule of law among them. I thought maybe here I could be able to interview the techs, the managers and either the owner of the company or the highest one I can. For this, I would ak permission from my husband's bosses to follow along and have the techs speak frankly with me. In our culture in the USA, work sub-cultures can become like a family.
My third is along the same lines as the second, dealing with the culture of surgical nurses. These nurses are and have to be detailed oreintated and quick on wit when dealing with surgeries that can go awry and with patients who run the gamet of sweet elderly people down to small, innocent babies.
I think between the three ideas, would make for an interesting project and leave the reader with a sense of appriciation for the subjects.
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