public eye
Public eye: write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Interview and report on 4 people: 2 who are under 40 and 2 who are over 40. Simply ask them: What do you think of clowns? Listen to their answers.
Then, write 2 paragraphs on what you discovered, 1 describing the answers of the under-40 people and 1 describing that of the over-40 respondents.
?Include anything really interesting that you discovered in talking to them about clowns, and include at least 1 outside reference on clowns (documented in an APA style) from the Internet or other sources.
?You may want to search “clown phobia” and read about it, or take a look at some of the clips on this topic (also known as coulrophobia) on video Web sites.
?Comment briefly on what it was like to engage in sociological research (even at a rudimentary level).
Write your own take on clowns and the social phenomenon of clown phobia. Write 200 hundred words or approximately 2 paragraphs. Consider:
?What causes this to happen in a culture?
?What is the role of the media in shaping a collective image or meaning about something in the public eye?
***For a detailed and easy to follow overview of phobias, click here to view the Medline Plus ‘phobias’ page
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After interviewing the four people, it was evident that people who are below 40 years fear clowns. From their responses I also noted that they had difficult in breathing after having an encounter with a clown. One of the responded argued that clowns make people mysterious thus scaring away people. Some of the responded stated that the fear of the clowns comes from the lack of knowing the person behind the clown………………………
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