Social survey(1)
Plan of our Action
In this step, our team plans to have
interviews with our headmaster, classmates, and leader of community
etc. And we will try our best to know more about the urban poverty.
The skills of interview
In order to have a smooth conduct of the work
in the interview, we collected some interview techniques.
1. We must be curious and skeptic to the interview.
2. We must be critical of an interview with an interview, is the source
of ordinary people. The treatment of attention to detail and do not
believe that one side of the story.
3. The classification of questions, open questions and closed
questions. While the former refers to more general, broad scope of the
larger problems, the answer is not strictly restricted to the other
party to the full freedom, room to play. The latter is the more
specific, clear, narrow the scope of the questions asked to answer the
other questions can only be limited to the specific content.
4. Question by the way. (1) Being asked. That the positive question,
came straight to the point, neat and tidy. (2) Side asked. Also called
the indirect method. (3) Ask. Also known as the blindingly. (4) Ask
remember: source can not let the tension in the former question, it is
necessary to know the answer to that question.
5. How do notes and records? (1) Heart remember. (2) Notes will be a
sense of what he saw and heard the true story of the material, through
the hands of the pen, recorded in the recording of the interview.
Recorded a number of focused, meaningful, the main facts and easy to
forget some of the content or materials. (3) Sound recordings: is to
use a tape recorder or voice recorder for interviews.
Interview with our headmaster(1)
Time: 3:00 pm. on April 15th, 2009
Place: Headmaster's Office
Interviewee: Headmaster Shengqun
Here is the Interview:
Q1: What is the number of students in poverty in our school?
A1: According to our calculation, there were 202 students who received
assistant scholarship in 2008, and assistant scholarship is 122,000
Yuan in total. This year alone, school fees cut is 63,000 Yuan in all
for 100 students.
Q2: So what may be the reason for their families to live so tough?
A2: Most families are receiving subsistence allowances in their sub
district. Among them, some parents suffer from low incomes, some suffer
from laid-off, and some are disabled, unfortunately.
Q3: Then how could our school help them?
A3: One way is to cut off the school fees, which helps the students on
material; other means are on mental, which come to teachers to spirit
them up. Teachers would do home visiting regularly, in order to catch
up problems both in learning and living, meanwhile communicating with
their parents to make students feel better.
Q4: To go further, in order to do more for students in poverty, how
could our school improve?
A4: The most important thing we should do is preserving helping them
for long periods. Besides providing their needs physically, encouraging
students in poverty psychologically weighs even more to them, the one
that may ease their emotional burdens, bring them to a peaceful
atmosphere of learning so as to built a better fundamental construction
for their future. Furthermore, concerns and affirmative opinions from
other classmates are strongly needed, too.
Interview with our headmaster(2)
Q5: Then speaking as a single person, what may
be your advices to the government on aiding those students suffering
poverty?
A5: Our government always treats people as important as they can,
meanwhile have a deep concern on vulnerable groups in society. By now
many policies have been carried out, such as Student Loans, setting up
Relief stations and so on. Communities should also concern more about
their residents, make sure no starving families were neglected on
investigation, which could surely be helpful to students in poverty. On
Medicare, if hospitalization insurance system grows more complicated, I
think things will go much better. And I hope there will be more
financial aids on this part, not only via cutting off school fees, but
also aiding them on everyday life, which could finally solve their
problems on living. When it comes to the league, I suggest setting up
special files for students in poverty, by which mean our party will
focus on aiding them more easily. On society, the rich should be
encouraged to help the poor, which is a good practice of our Chinese
tradition. But to go first, workers in the suffering families ought to
work hard together to create more profits for society.
Interview with our classmate
Time:1:00pm.on April 13th,2009
Place:on the playground ,the NO.16 High School
Interviewee: Lei and Jun
Purpose：Gaining information on the urban impoverished via interviewing
people of our age.
Here is the Interview:
1.Lei
Q1:How much is the approximate monthly income of your family?
A1:Around 1000 RMB.
Q2:Would you mind giving a brief introduction of the status quo of your
family?
A2:My mother bed-ridden with illness, my father being the bread winner,
we get subsidy from the government.We live in a suit of one bedroom and
one sitting room, and have the subsistence level of living.
Q3:What other aid policies do the government and school provide you and
your family?
A3:The Government offer us the minimum monthly subsidies for living
cost, and the school charge me half of the semester tuition
fee.Besides, the Government provide us with some stuff to ensure us a
happy new year.
Q4:Are you satisfied with the current government policy? Do you have
further expectations or requirements?
A4:Quite satisfied, to be frank. And I do hope it will keep on.
2.Jun
Q1:How much is the approximate monthly income of your family?
A1:About 2000 RMB.
Q2:Would you mind giving a brief introduction of the status quo of your
family?
A2:The living area contains one bedroom. We've already reached the
subsistence level.
Q3:What other aid policies do the government and school provide you and
your family?
A3: The Government offer us the minimum monthly subsidies for living
cost, and the school charge me half of the semester tuition
fee.Besides, the Government provide us with some stuff to ensure us a
happy new year.
Q4:Are you satisfied with the current government policy? Do you have
further expectations or requirements?
A4:Quite satisfied, to be frank. And I do hope it will keep on.