Part 1: The social group description of a Chinese restaurant
Many students have a part time job, some work in Walmart, some work as waiters or waitresses. I work in a fast food Chinese restaurant as a kitchen help. The social group that I want to talk about is the employee system in a restaurant that I’m currently a part of. This restaurant serves Chinese food. The location of the restaurant is at the byword market in Ottawa. There are two section of the restaurant, customers are severed in the section with tables while employees working in the kitchen side. The menu of the restaurant is posted on the order bar. The menu is bilingual (Chinese and English).
There are three collages of mine, all female, all Asians, one is the manager, one …show more content…
Getting in line is becoming a social norm. It’s is not just in the restaurant, people getting in line everywhere. If anyone break this social norm, people around that person would give him or her a weird look to warn him or her. Sometimes the employee needs to tell the customer to follow the rule if someone is cutting the line. Social norms are learned in the process of socialization (Little et al, 2014). Getting in line is learned in primary socialization and second socialization (Little et al, 2014). Where the primary socialization happens on little children and secondary socialization happens when students in post-secondary education (T. Davidson, personal communications, Sep 28th 2016). For children and teenager their parents or teacher tell them to get in a line so they would remember and follow the rule. Following social norms is important, because without norms the social group would go anomie, which means that the society has no strong collective anymore. For example, if no one gets in line in the restaurant and everyone is taking the wrong orders, the restaurant is going to be messed up. Additionally, the cashier usually asks the customer “How are you today?”, she does not actually care about if the customer is having a great day. Saying this is just a way of greeting to show polite. This greeting behaviour is a culture norm in Canada. Almost every shop or restaurant in …show more content…
I don’t think it is a coincident. According to Durkheim’ functionalism again. As for a woman in a family, her function is expected as nurturing, take care of children, cooking (Little et al, 2014). While A man is expected to make money for the family. It may be the reason that there are all women work this restaurant. The owner hires more female employees because he expects women can do better kitchen job than man. Another interesting fact of women in this restaurant is that female costumers always have a half sugar order on their bubble tea. I sometimes ask the reason that they order half sugar. They claim that they are on a diet and they are trying to reduce the sugar intake. This is an example of infantilized women. Infantilized women are with strong female feature who are slim, with big eyes, with some children behaviours (T. Davidson, personal communications, Oct 12th 2016). Girls who order low sugar drinks are trying to be like infantilized women because the society think these features make a woman pretty. The social media have strong effects on defining infantilized women. Models on magazines are all tall, slim, with big eyes. Those pictures really affect how the society defining pretty.
A restaurant is a place that we go very often. It is a small social group but it reflects the whole society in some way. I analysed this restaurant social group respect to capitalism, social imagination, socialization and gender
Many students have a part time job, some work in Walmart, some work as waiters or waitresses. I work in a fast food Chinese restaurant as a kitchen help. The social group that I want to talk about is the employee system in a restaurant that I’m currently a part of. This restaurant serves Chinese food. The location of the restaurant is at the byword market in Ottawa. There are two section of the restaurant, customers are severed in the section with tables while employees working in the kitchen side. The menu of the restaurant is posted on the order bar. The menu is bilingual (Chinese and English).
There are three collages of mine, all female, all Asians, one is the manager, one …show more content…
Getting in line is becoming a social norm. It’s is not just in the restaurant, people getting in line everywhere. If anyone break this social norm, people around that person would give him or her a weird look to warn him or her. Sometimes the employee needs to tell the customer to follow the rule if someone is cutting the line. Social norms are learned in the process of socialization (Little et al, 2014). Getting in line is learned in primary socialization and second socialization (Little et al, 2014). Where the primary socialization happens on little children and secondary socialization happens when students in post-secondary education (T. Davidson, personal communications, Sep 28th 2016). For children and teenager their parents or teacher tell them to get in a line so they would remember and follow the rule. Following social norms is important, because without norms the social group would go anomie, which means that the society has no strong collective anymore. For example, if no one gets in line in the restaurant and everyone is taking the wrong orders, the restaurant is going to be messed up. Additionally, the cashier usually asks the customer “How are you today?”, she does not actually care about if the customer is having a great day. Saying this is just a way of greeting to show polite. This greeting behaviour is a culture norm in Canada. Almost every shop or restaurant in …show more content…
I don’t think it is a coincident. According to Durkheim’ functionalism again. As for a woman in a family, her function is expected as nurturing, take care of children, cooking (Little et al, 2014). While A man is expected to make money for the family. It may be the reason that there are all women work this restaurant. The owner hires more female employees because he expects women can do better kitchen job than man. Another interesting fact of women in this restaurant is that female costumers always have a half sugar order on their bubble tea. I sometimes ask the reason that they order half sugar. They claim that they are on a diet and they are trying to reduce the sugar intake. This is an example of infantilized women. Infantilized women are with strong female feature who are slim, with big eyes, with some children behaviours (T. Davidson, personal communications, Oct 12th 2016). Girls who order low sugar drinks are trying to be like infantilized women because the society think these features make a woman pretty. The social media have strong effects on defining infantilized women. Models on magazines are all tall, slim, with big eyes. Those pictures really affect how the society defining pretty.
A restaurant is a place that we go very often. It is a small social group but it reflects the whole society in some way. I analysed this restaurant social group respect to capitalism, social imagination, socialization and gender