Ethnography

Ethnographic study of Human behaviour at a cafe

The ethnography research that I studied took place at a coffee shop. I visited Cafe Coffee Day on Saturday at around 7:00 pm to observe behaviour of people who visited the cafe. I entered the coffee shop by casually walking in and had a glance over a possible place to sit. Fortunately I found in the middle of the cafeteria. There was big counter at one corner. One side of which had cakes. The counter was a self service one. I asked for the menu and in no time a waiter was there with one. I quickly ordered a frappe.

As it was a weekend there the cafe was almost full. I could see the waiter rushing down to the counter and asking a guy behind to prepare orders. Meanwhile I looked around to see to what age group the people present there belonged. As I expected they were mostly teenagers, college going students and couples. At the corners of the cafe were seated two couples while other customers occupied the centre tables. There was a group of 9, five boys and four girls that occupied the table just beside the counter. While I was looking at the group, a waiter came with the frappe that I ordered. The group was there when I entered the cafe but none of them ordered anything. From that I guessed they might be waiting for some others. A girl who was sitting at the extreme left of that table had a big white plastic bake which said “celebrations”. I took me no time to guess that it was a cake.

On the table just beside me was seated a couple. They were having a rough time. The girl was accusing the boy of being careless enough not to call her or text her the entire day while the guy was trying to give explanations.

Seated diagonally opposite to me was a small group of school going boys that talked quite aloud about the test match that India lost. One of them said, If Sachin doesn’t play the team falls down like a pack of cards. The others quickly jumped to contradict saying “why Sachin fails to perform well in important...