Ethnographic Notes B – Class room sessions as ritual-like events.

Discuss similarities and differences between a class session and a Sunday church event.

     There are multiple similarities when discussing class sessions and sunday church events. One similarity might be found in the scheduled, specified times in which people meet at either church or in the classroom. This organized form of meeting seems to be the norm for almost every event played out in society. There is also a similarity in a person of higher power that controls the pace and "enlightens" students or onlookers of the subject matter. When either the preist in church or the teacher in schools talk there is silence and respect.

     There are also differences when discussing class sessions and sunday church events. For example, the age variation found in a sunday church event is not the same with a classroom setting. People from little kids to the elder participate in the same curch services however in a classroom there is generally a narrowed age range.