Sociology

It was very interesting taking the interview. It was interesting to learn the correlation of the age, gender, gender, ethnicity, and the location of growing and their perspective of old people. It was interesting to learn about the different perspectives of old age depending on the way in which the interviewed individuals were brought up (German, 2006). One of the interviewees expressed different thoughts over old age depending on their religious beliefs which made me learn a lot about the different religious societies (German, 2006). The experience with the subjects was exciting and eye-opening and was worth my time. They vividly talked about their role models and how they influenced them. It was a good experience learning the influence of role models on the attitudes towards old age.

The subjects willingly shared information on the research therein. They gave accurate information about their age, ethnicity, gender, race, and where they grew up. They expressed their right perspectives over old age. Two of them stated they associated old age with days of misery where people spend their days in adult orphanages and that they usually are very lonely. The subjects expressed that the way in which they grew up had much influence on the notions over old age. The interviewees comfortable shared about their role models and stated how they had influenced their lives. One interviewee narrated his story with his role model and how he has affected his perspectives on major life issues. However, the subjects were unwilling to explain whether they were part of any religious or social growing up. Two of them were not comfortable sharing about their religious bearing and their social beliefs. This could have been because they did not ascribe to the major religious organizations and social views.

Writing the questionnaire that could incorporate the entire topic was a bit difficult. It took time to come up with a questionnaire that the subjects could find comfortable. It is worth noting that the survey was to be in line with the beliefs of the interviewees. It was a little difficult convincing the subjects to take part in the research. They felt uneasy at the first instance to share such sensitive information. They had a feeling it would breach their privacy.

There were several difficulties experienced in the questionnaire. The first challenge was choosing the right methodology for carrying out the research. It was difficult to decide whether the investigation was supposed to be a qualitative study or a quantitative study. Initially, it was difficult to find the study participants, but they later readily agreed (Friendlander, 2006). After the interview, there was a difficulty in dealing with the data to come up with a conclusion about the study (Friendlander, 2006). It took a lot of time for the data to make sense in line with the topic of the research. The researchers were also not willing to share on all the research questions on the questionnaire. However, the study was successful regardless of the many challenges experienced.

References

Friendlander, R. (2006). Challenges for Systemic Inquiry in the Convergence of Knowledge in a

Research Project. Sistemas y Telemática, 3(5), 109.

German, T. (2006). Representational and executive selection resources in ‘theory of mind’:

Evidence from compromised belief-desire reasoning in old age. Cognition, 101(1), 129-152.