Complaints
Due February 9 and 16, 2007 |
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The question underlying this assignment is "are there gender
differences in how people complain?" Each group will discuss
interesting sites for collecting complaints, and organize collection
of complaints. Group members might all collect in the same site, maybe
at different times, or they might choose to collect in different
sites. Each group member will record the first ten complaints he or
she witnesses, using the Excel spread sheet found on this page. The
spread sheet contains columns for the time of day, the place, the
coder's name, the gender of the complainer and the complainee, the
topic of the complaint (see below), and a verbatim transcription of
the interaction. That should include not only the complaint, but
anything that led up to it and that followed from it. The groups will
combine their data and email them to us by class on Friday, February
9.