Ethnography Results, Week 4

We went all as a group this week to observe the movie theater in College Station. We observed a large group of students who we could not tell if they were freshmen in college or local high school students. They had 2 chaperons and were all minorities. It was hard to decipher if they were a group at school or some sort of organization. I also witnessed a mother and her older son who could have been in his last year in high school or a freshman. We also saw a few older couples, which was very high for what we expected, and some even had their grandchildren with them. There was also the usual college student couples as well as 2 friends going either male-male or female-female. There was 2 couples that appeared to be locals and not college students. Upon entering the movie, we noticed that most of the people, besides the older folk, were in our theater watching the same movie. We also noticed that operas were being advertised in the theater and this might change the lobby culture. This took place at about 1:45 which proved difficult to tell if students were in high school, being that they should be in school at the time.