Research Update

For my Research, I am conducting a Social Class Survey. I made a cover page for the Survey which included the participant's age, sex, and what they believed was their current social class, regardless of all outside factors. I also made a results page which explained what the survey that they just took meant, and had space for them to tally up their results and realize that most people while characterizing themselves in only one social class usually have abilities/knowledge from all 3 classes, along with the question of whether or not they were surprised with their results. I have already given the survey to 5 people who have completed it and given it back to me. I plan to give out the rest of the surveys in the next two weeks and have them back before 12/25. With the information from the survey and the additional two pages that I added on, I will have a sufficient amount of information to make a presentation showing the results and percentages of different age groups and gender and report on the success or failure of the realization reactions for the intended purpose of this survey.

Strategy/Plan for Research

With my Social Class Questionnaire Survey, I plan to administer it to at least 20 different people of different ages, both male and female, and with suspected different incomes. Once I have the results of the different surveys, I will be able to compare and contrast all of the aspects of the survey in sync with the habits and daily lives of the participants. I will explain to them the true significance behind social class (power, prestige, and property) and ask additional questions such as whether they believed their outcome result was accurate to them or not. I will take all of the data and present it in a PowerPoint.  

Suggested Research Method/Why

For my second semester project on Social Class, I plan to use the 'What Social Class do you fall into?' (lower, middle or upper class) questionnaire survey. Since the questionnaire helps to pinpoint a certain social class that you are classified as, it also sees how capable you would be, and what aspects you would be knowledgeable about in the other two social classes. This will help me to see first, the overall percentage of the people that I survey's class ranking and second, what is it about the characteristics of the 3 social classes that define the participants' lives. This research method will help me to better understand how people really stand in their social class, aside from their income and status in society.