Daniel Globig

YMI340

Interview Questions

1) What was your high school experience like? 2) What kind of extracurricular activities were available? a. What did you do? 3) How did religion play a part during your teen years? 4) What was most important for Americans as you were growing up? a. What were the highest values or morals? 5) How was adolescence (the period of transition between childhood and adulthood) viewed when you were a teenager? - How did your parents, teachers, authorities treat you 6) How connected were families at the time you were growing up? a. What was it like for you? 7) What was the typical amount of time expected for people to become an adult? 8) What were the types of job expectations and ages involved with each expectation? a. Were teens expected or encouraged to work while in school? 9) What were the most common fun activities most people your age were involved in (as a teen)? 10) How much was education and college emphasized when you were a teen? 11) What were some of the slang words of your time? 12) What were the most popular styles of dress in your teens? 13) Who were some of the famous people at the time? a. Musicians, actors, celebrities etc of this time? 14) What types of responsibilities were teens given? a. What were the different stages of responsibility release? 15) What did a popular person look like at this time? 16) What did most teens aspire to be when they grew up? 17) Who were the most influential people of this time? a. What was most influential in the lives of teens (media)? 18) How were other cultures viewed by your peers? a. What was the culture build up of your peers? b. Were they accepting to other cultures, social statusesetc? 19) What were the major political persuasions of your time? a. Were most people conservative, liberal, or what? 20) How was the world or the nation viewed by most teens? a. Is the nation a safe, prosperous place? 21) Were times hard, economically, when you were a teen? a. How did this affect you? 22) Who was there for you the most when you were growing up during your teen years? a. How did they help? 23) What shocks you the most about teens today? 24) What advice would you give to future youth workers? 25) What is completely different today from when you were growing up within the society and culture as a whole? 26) What values are emphasized more today than were when you grew up? What is most needed? 1.7.10 Dr. Widstrom Ethnographic Interview