Depending on who I interview at my field sites, I would like to focus on someone who had been in the military or someone who is facing drug and alcohol problems. I read a statistic somewhere when I was doing research and said that 1 in 4 veterans are homeless. I couldn't believe that, for a country that says they just love their veterans it sure doesn't look that way. But also with this being an ethnography I need to look at homelessness as a whole. So yes I do need to spend more time in my field sites.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
I still have a lot of research to do as far focusing in on a certain aspect of homelessness. I have found that there is a lot of information on all areas resulting in homelessness from the military, domestic abuse, drug/alcohol problems, and many others. I have yet to visit any field sites. When I visited a shelter back in my hometown there weren't people inside. They had a check in time between 7-9 pm and then the residents had to be out the next morning by 7 am. So that ended up being a bust, but I e mailed a local shelter here in Muncie to see when a good time to stop by would be. I explained to them what I would be doing and asked if they would be able to accommodate.
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