The use of the room's phone in Aynsley Hall

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Aynsley Hall is a foreign students residence on the Stoke-on-Trent campus. The phone is installed in all the rooms and it is free to call on the campus. The title of my research is 'The use of the room's phone in Aynsley Hall' and one research question is 'By what means the use of the phone allocates the act of socialization?' So one research objective is to define how the phone can change the act of socialization. If socialization is 'the process of learning interpersonal and interactional skills that are in conformity with the values of one's society', we can deduce that socialization is necessary to be integrated into a society and not be excluded.

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[...] (1949) The sociology of sociability Weber, M. (1903) Archives for social science and social welfare Internet sources www.argonautes.fr [Accessed on web 18 December 2008] dictionary.reference.com/browse/socialization [Accessed on web 19 December 2008] www.sciencedirect.com [Accessed on web 19 December 2008] www.socialresearchmethods.net [Accessed on web 19 December 2008] Appendix Questionnaire How many times a week do you use your room phone on average? 1 to 5 times 6 to 10 11 to 16 16 or more What is the utility of your call? [...]

[...] The respondents are international students who live in the campus at Aynsley Hall. They have between 18 and 30 years old, so we can consider that they are used to use phones and new means of technology. Finally, the survey is to be self administered, by delivery and collection questionnaire, because it is the best method to realize if a question is unclear (Ash, 2008). To analyse if the phone allocates the act of socialization, it seems interesting to ask some behaviour questions (Saunders 2003) as you phone inhabitants of the building?”. [...]

[...] Unfortunately, the sample size will be too small to have reliable results according to module courses, but we will work with those. If we study a universe of 90 people, with a margin of error of we should question 67 people (Bernouilli law) (Duccini, 2006). Finally, it is of course more a quantitative approach than qualitative because I will measure some social facts before deducing and trying to explain its (for instance duration of a call, calls number per week etc.). To question individuals on their use phone manners could be awkward and personal. [...]

[...] The use of the room's phone in Aynsley Hall Questions Preamble: Aynsley Hall is a foreign student's residence on the Stoke-on- Trent campus. The phone is installed in all the rooms and it is free to call on the campus. The title of my research is use of the room's phone in Aynsley Hall” and one research question should be what means the use of the phone allocates the act of socialization?” So one research objective is to define how the phone can change the act of socialization. [...]

[...] Are we less sociable than one century ago? A lot of authors try to answer this question with important ethical implications. 5a) We will design a questionnaire to answer the question: what means the use of the phone allocates the act of socialization First of all, to be effective and necessary, the questionnaire has to be single and not present in the literature. The literature review undertaken shows some socialize effects of the phone, but never in the case of international students on a campus. [...]