blog 5

My critical question deals with this balance between the views of an individual versus the collective. Is it morally right to do what is best for yourself, or what is best for everyone else? And are these things related or not? It would be really interesting for me to see the balance of power in the confines of certain occupations, and how certain people view their jobs in that regard. There is a lot of corruption as well as nobility in this world, and I want to find it out through a lens of someone in my community.

         I want to interview a profile of someone for sure, and then extrapolate the observation to how it affects the people involved in those decisions. It definitely could be called a relationship between the rich and the poor, which I think sparks the base foundation in which this question was first hatched. As for who to research, I would definitely want to attach this question to a branch of a society that I am currently in, college. I want to interview the dean of students or a financial aid person, of even the representative of the campus in the government to get a base on their ideas. Then the ethnography part would be considered the observations of their day and effects in everyday college life. The observation is really wide open considering I have no gauge of what a big problem is on campus. I surely know of the struggles to pay for college. They would shed light because they make decision both in the universities sake, and the students. Those both can be related and maybe different.

         The base of my questions will maybe be their road to get there, and what goes into the decisions they make. I’m related to the person whoever that may be because I am a new resident to the university, and the community of Lincoln. I think to start off with an email saying I would like to talk to them for my class project and then setting up a time that fits our schedules. Maybe asking the introduction questions and explaining myself then will give less ice to break once we meet.

         Here are some questions I thought of which are in no particular order:

1.   What lead you to this job?

2.   How do you see yourself in the environment of the campus?

3.   How is your day usually?

4.   What does it entail as far as the university?

5.   What goes into the decisions you have to make?

6.   Does the thought process work differently for the decisions you want to make, versus the obligations?

7.   What kind of rules do you stress when a student has to come see you?

8.   How do you balance to needs of the few people in power, with the needs of the students?

9.   Do you think the decisions you make on a day to day as far as the future, have direct help?

10.                 When you were in college, what was your view it?

11.                 Has that changed when you had power?

12.                 How do you see the people of power?

13.                 Who benefits from the decisions you have to make?

14.                 When you make a decision that is right for you, how does it relate to the collective that you work for belong and above you?

15.                 Is there a time to be selfish?

I think that my question definitely are very broad, and they can be revised. I will be recording it on an mp3 player from home or if my home has the capacity.