The Personality of Place

This topic submitted by Melissa Raftery, Brandy McQueary, and Nikki Rudnick (rudnicnl@muohio.edu) at 5:58 pm on 1/31/01. Additions were last made on Sunday, June 16, 2002. Section: Cummins.

We hypothesis that the mentality of individuals growing up in a city environment will differ greatly from the mentality of individuals growing up in a small town surrounding. We believe that there will be obvious correlation’s in the data that we collect showing differences between big city values and small town values. Neither of these groups beliefs are considered more acceptable by society, but each heavily argues for its lifestyle being on a higher moral ground.

We plan to conduct surveys of people living in diverse areas to get there opinions on alutrism, lyalty, and friendship. We are going to viedo tape a commom social setting, such as a grocery store, in a small town and in a large city, to study the social interactions that go on between individuals. Ar ethere any relations between these settings waht are the differences.

We predict that in small towns people will be more corridial toward one another and more prone to conversation, based on Wright's thoughts that we are more apt to be nice to people we will encounter again. In big cities we will see very little interactions due to the large populations.

Natural selection has given us the ability to adapt and we have diefferent reasons for doing things. People that live in small towns are not just more nice because of their personalities, but becuase of the necessity.

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