Steve,+Wessel,+Victoria

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__**SPECIFIC QUESTION**:__ **Which culture is much more likely to eat dinner together as a family? Homemade meal? Take out?** __**SURVEY QUESTIONS:**__ ** - What do you value more? Spending time with friends or spending time with family? ** ** - What activities are usually done with your family, if any? ** ** - How often do you go out with your friends/family? **
 * __BIG PICTURE QUESTION:__ Which culture is more family oriented?**
 * __PLAN OF ACTION:__**
 * We are going to hand out a survey to 25 High School Students per grade. So to 100 students in total.**
 * Then we will collect the data and analyse it.**
 * In order to conduct this study, we will hand out a survey to 100 students asking questions that will lead to an overall answer of which culture tends to be more family oriented.**
 * __LINKS:__**
 * 1) [|Are people becoming less and less family oriented?]**
 * 2) [|How often do you go out to eat?]**
 * 3)[|The Magic of the Family Meal]**
 * 4)[|Research on Family Meals]**
 * Those links are the answers for the questions listed up above.**
 * __COMMENT ON THE PROJECT:__**
 * We are really looking forward to the results of our project.**
 * We think the project is a great experience for both groups.**
 * The idea doing this project is awesome.**
 * __HYPOTHESIS:__**
 * We believe that when the outcome of the data is studied, we will possibly find Korean culture tends to be more family oriented.**
 * - How many days a week do you sit together with your family to eat a meal? **
 * ­­­­­­­­- Are you more likely to eat a home cooked meal or order or pick up take out? **
 * - Is it important for you to eat with your parents and siblings? **

Outlining the Project

Wessel Jerusalem and Victoria Van Brandt

Receiving the project, we had a hard time deciding what to research on and what would be something that would be easy to find results for. We sat there for several minutes throwing out ideas we had, but later failed to plan out. It wasn’t until we just stopped freaking out about finding a topic, that one came to us. The topic that was chosen dealt with family and the reason this particular topic was dealing with that is because we felt time spent with family was an important issue and that we wanted to know if high school students in Korea were more or less likely to spend quality time together than high school students in the United States. The topic was easy to come up with questions for and through analysis, we were able to find some pretty well thought out and genuine answers. It was thought that Korea would be more family oriented and actually found that the United States and Korea had almost an equal importance of time with family.

The literature compares to the analysis and research in that the topics seemed to be true to our personal survey analysis. People are becoming less and less likely to spend a decent amount of time with their family. People still eat home cooked meals, but now, people don’t find it as important to spend time with their family and value their friends over family.

The method that was chosen to perform the research was through a survey. We felt this would be best because many would be more likely to answer honestly if given the time to write down answers on paper. It was also a quick way to get many results in a short

amount of time rather than asking people the questions where there was a higher possibility of stretching the truth or lying. Students were not required to write their names down which may have been more comfortable to share accurate and honest answers.

Our hypothesis disapproves the results. We thought that Korean high school students would be more likely to put family at a higher value and worth along with spending time with them, but it actually turned out the results for the United States and Korea were more or less the same. Both cultures and ethnicity's had an average value for their family. It was also found that students that said they valued their family greatly, spent more time with their friends.

The greatest flaws that came about in the survey and process were that many people didn’t understand the last question which was later disregarded and Steve, our Korean partner, had a hard time finding 25 people in each grade. Also, it was hard to decide how we would analyze our results at first. Another flaw was our Korean partner used a website to analyze his results which maybe is not necessarily a flaw, but a difference that we weren’t aware of till his results had been completed.