This blog calls you to think critically about some gaps you have
noticed in the literature you have read thus far. If you think back to
the student work we have read thus far, a major part of an inquiry based
research project involves locating gaps in the conversation. For
example, in the piece we read about Facebook disclosure, the author
noticed a gap in the literature in recognizing there weren't any
considerations for the Myers Brigs Type Indicator in research involving
social behavior. The researcher noticed that the Five Factor Model was
used exclusively, and she set out to occupy this gap by conducting her
own study to see how the MBTI might add something interesting to help
further understand Facebook disclosure.
At this point, you should be pretty well entrenched in your work, and it
is now time to think critically about what might be missing from the
conversation.
Your task for this blog is to deliver a very concise rendition of the
research conversation, and then indicate some gaps in the current
conversation. I'm sure there is a different angle you can look into that
has yet to be explored. Think of this blog posting as a prequel to your
literature review.
Stand Your Ground has been a controversial topic lately- and for good reason. Thus far, Stand Your Ground has been perceived as a tug-of-war between race and legality. Interestingly, the focus has been on race considering "that 73 percent of those who killed a black person [walk] free, versus 59 percent of those who killed a white person" (Jealous, Should "Stand Your Ground" laws be repealed?).
ReplyDeleteResearchers have pursued the legality issue of the broad law- indicating that reasonable fear is a matter to which there is no ethical measure and is done by a case to case basis.
What researches have lacked to investigate is how media bias and slant influences a persons' perception on the Stand Your Ground laws. I think that media bias/ slant signifies a deeper battle and is factor that goes into Stand Your Ground. The law is not merely composed of two factors- race and legality issues, but also the possibility of media influence.
There is a gap in research between race and legality. I think the gap can be bridged with a look into media and how media connects the two- considering media is so prominenet in modern day society.
Jealous, Benjamin. "Title: Should "Stand Your Ground" Laws Be Repealed?" U.S. Digital News Weekly 5.30 (2013): 16. EBSCO. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.
In an academic journal article entitled, “Entertainment” Chimpanzees In Commercials Distorts Public Perception Regarding Their Conservation Status, written by Schroepfer, Rosati, Chartrand, and Hare, the focus of their research is to compare the awareness and donations given by participants according to how the chimpanzees are depicted in one of the three commercials they were assigned to view. After they watched the video, the participants were then ask them to fill out a series of survey questions to record their thoughts and attitudes regarding what they had just witnessed. However, the researchers chose two commercials that depict chimpanzees naturally and only one commercial that labeled the chimpanzee as an entertainer to include in their research experiment. This may have caused their research to contain a good amount of bias since the number of subjects that watched a commercial the conservation commercials outnumbered those who were exposed to the entertainment video. Rather than showing two videos from an entertainment perspective and two from a conservation perspective to make the research more balanced, they failed to realize that the way they conducted their experiment would result in biased data and cause the reader of their article to question what an entertainment video could be defined as.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the authors of the article, a dancing chimpanzee defined a prime example of an entertainment video, which may have lead them to select it as the only video they incorporated into their study. The video consisted of a chimpanzee dancing to background music, which was clearly a source of entertainment, but the only one they chose to use as well. If they had incorporated more videos that could be defined as entertainment videos, this could have possibly reduced the amount of bias found in their overall results from their experiment and help their overall cause as to why people may not be aware of the hard at work conservation efforts that chimpanzees so desperately need and what will cause them to donate to their cause.
To reduce the gap that was located in the data of this article, the researchers should have included more than just one video from the entertainment genre to gather more accurate and less biased results. They could have also clarified what animal entertainment videos were so their audience could differentiate between a conservation ad and an entertainment commercial or video.
Schroepfer, Kara K., Alexandra G. Rosati, Tanya Chartrand, and Brian Hare. "Use Of
"Entertainment" Chimpanzees In Commercials
Distorts Public Perception Regarding Their Conservation Status." Plos ONE 6.10 (2011): 1-8. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Feb. 2014.
Modesty has become a hot topic recently due to changes in everyday clothing and celebrities’ performances such as Miley Cyrus at the VMAS. Modesty tends to get a bit controversial seeing as, “Modesty is a movement predominately compromised of girls and young women who identify as members of Judaic, Christian, and Islam faith traditions…” (Hahner). There seems to be a negative connotation placed on the idea of modesty and it is used almost interchangeably with words such as misogyny and oppression.
ReplyDeleteAnother issue is few people, excluding those in the faiths above, wish to speak about modesty, the idea of modesty, or immodesty at all. This is surprising considering very small percentages of women truly feel comfortable exposing so much skin (Palmer). The only argument seems to stem from the idea that modesty is to tame men, not to help women feel freer.
With that inconsideration, I think the gaps lie with the average everyday person thinking modesty is only for the very religious, the over sexualized media, and the desensitization to sexuality. I think it can be bridged with a study of how comfortable women truly feel in their skin and what they wish to display to the public.
Work Cited:
Hahner, Leslie A., and Scott J. Varda. "Modesty And Feminisms: Conversations On Aesthetics And Resistance." Feminist Formations 24.3 (2012): 22-42. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 18 Feb. 2014. 18 Feb. 2014.
Palmer, Kimberly. "Anti-Britney: The New Look." U.S. News & World Report 142.14 (2007): 50. Readers' Guide Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson). Web. 13 Feb. 2014.
Being a University student I have become recently concerned by the current business market and what qualities employees seek in their employees. This concern led me to research articles which raved graduates who utilize creative thinking skills and are able to produce original ideas. Creativity, and the current demand for it sparked my interest which led me to ask the question: How do university students who have been taught in public and private schools perceive their rendering of creativity.
ReplyDeleteIn addressing this question I focused my research on two main components I needed to understand for my study. These two issues being the differences in public and private schools and analyzing creativity and how it is becoming increasingly values in society.
A great amount research has been conducted addressing the differences between public and private schools and many of my findings were similar in their conclusions. Public schools tend to have more social issues and a larger student body (Choy.) In understanding the differences between public and private schools I gained background knowledge on these institutions which is essential in conducting my future research.
Research done addressing the differences in creativity in public and private schools identified the same issue yet from the perspective of the teachers. Such research revealed that “private school teachers rated their students higher overall on creativity” (Easton,Giannangelo,Franceschini 132,133.) Teachers have a potential biased when rating their students on their levels of creativity and in my research I wanted to fill that gap by gaining the perspective of University Students.
In gaining the perspective of University students I hope to gain better understanding on hoe students believe they were prepared for this new creativity-driven business world. In analyzing my findings I contribute to the ongoing conversation regarding creativity within education by addressing how students in public and private schools feel they were prepared to think creatively.
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ReplyDeleteProfessor Joseph Longhany
ENC 1102
2 February 2014
Locating Gaps
Female soldiers are fighting every day to prove themselves as being just as competent as male soldiers in a combat environment. However, they are face with discrimination due to the social norms that are implemented in the society they grow up in. These social norm, which are not relevant to the soldier personal ability, eliminates the female soldiers’ opportunity to fight in a combat role along with their fellow brothers. Social norms such as females being weaker, more emotional or more sexual acts as a barrier to further advancement within military ranks. But, not all women in the army shares this view.
Women that Mary Eberstadt states within her article titled “Mothers in Combat Boot” oppose the fight for women to be accepted in combat roles. This is due to that fact if women get approved to fight along men, than they are expected to be treated in every aspect like a male soldier. This includes women being a part of the selective service act. This causes much distress to female soldiers and civilians because the amount of children whom would grow up without mothers. Due to this gap within the research, it is hard to support my argument when some female soldiers are fully against complete integration of females.
“Thus in an intricate if unfortunate intersection of events, conservatives and liberals together have both played a part in keeping the question of mothers at war below the radar screen of commentary. They have inadvertently created if not the perfect storm, at least the atmospheric conditions in which certain pressing questions are no longer asked — among them, why one face of the American military right now is a single mother sitting in jail without her baby rather than serving in Afghanistan without her baby.” (Eberstadt 40)
The quote above illustrates the issue that some military women face, especially with the advancement of equal right within the military for women. Within the research, this female perspective needs to be analyze that not all females support fighting in combat boots. Mothers within the military want to focus on their children and their well-being before thinking about the opportunity of equality within the military ranks which could hinder the advancement of equality.
EBERSTADT, MARY. "Mothers In Combat Boots." Policy Review 159 (2010): 33-44. Military & Government Collection. Web. 18 Feb. 2014.
Nathan Guenther
ReplyDeleteJoseph Longhany
ENC 1102 Section 49
19 February 2014
Locating Gaps
In the conversation of ethics in robotics and artificial intelligence, there are definitely some major gaps in the research. The biggest one I’ve noticed, is there seems to be a huge lack of information on the subject from manufactures and policymakers. Since they are the ones with the most direct control over the issues discussed, you would think their input would be important. Maybe they just don’t want to be very open about it, but with some major concerns had by many they could put people at ease by showing the progress they have made, or what they have discussed. On the other hand it could be just that they still don’t have much to go on or the solutions people are looking for. Either way I find it intriguing, with such urgent issues I would expect more coverage and involvement. As the conversation continues I only expect it to attract more attention however, so future research has the potential to fill this gap with some truly useful data. Interestingly enough independent bloggers and researches seem to being the one really expanding the conversation and trying to accomplish some major progress. Perhaps everyone else is just waiting and watching for them to figure out what is necessary to be done. Either way a major gap is present, and I suspect others have recognized it as well, so maybe it’s only a matter of time.
Mondello et al., in the academic article “Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics,” attempts to understand the idea of the pay for play model, the current state of amateurism for the NCAA athletes, and the boundaries between the two that keep them separated. Mondello et al. speculate that to demolish those barriers, the general public’s opinion will be a huge factor. The authors conduct a sample survey, meaning at random, of 420 households conducting an interview of about 20 minutes. Within these 20 minutes, the demographics of the participant are taken and their opinions on whether or not college athletes should be compensated more were recorded. The results found are great to apply towards the discussion however I believe that this is a gap and the study can be furthered. Mondello et al. surveyed only random households; what they should have done is also survey random college athletes and coaches. Also if possible, a survey of NCAA officials, University officials and donors. Comparing these could offer a wider range of data that could help the conversation become more educated on how to approach persuading those who are able to make changes. Targeting people more closely related to the issue would be more beneficial too compared random households around the US because random households can only illustrate so much. Although important, their opinions wouldn’t be as influential as the officials. The possibility of new findings arising from this proposed addition to the study occurring would also benefit the conversation.
ReplyDeleteMondello, Michael, et al. "Public Perceptions On Paying Student Athletes." Sport In Society 16.1 (2013): 106-119. SPORTDiscus. Web. 18 Feb. 2014.
Disney Princess movies have been popular for a long time but most feminist have taken a stand against the way women are portrayed in these movies. This year a new Princess movie came out that hasn't been added to the conservation yet but might represent a new trend in Disney movies. Normally Disney Princess movies end with finding true love and a happy ever after that includes getting married. Which as Stone points out has taken root in the minds of young girls, “Some had openly admired the lovely princesses and hoped to imitate them-especially their ability to obtain a man and a suburban castle without much effort” (p.48). But Frozen is different and it goes against that stereotype. It actually shows the dangers of “love at first sight” and marrying someone that you barely know. I want to explore if there are any other changes was made in this new addition. Also, most articles discuss how Princess movies affect women but there is not that much research on how Disney movies stereotype affect men or how the male characters have changed over time.
ReplyDeleteStone, Kay. "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us." Journal of American Folklore 88. (1975): 42-50. `Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson). Web. 15 Feb. 2014.
Pressuring students into career fields at early ages and the amount of undeclared students in college are topics that are very current in today’s society. According to Bob Barr, a columnist and former State Representative, students are choosing career paths as early as their first year in high school. On the other end of the spectrum, there are students who are not forced to pick a career early on and go into college undeclared. While researching, I have found a couple gaps. One that I have noticed often is that studies and articles are examining the amount of undeclared students and potential reasons for them being undeclared but not what ultimately gets them to decide on a major. I think it would be interesting to find out the steps students are choosing to find the right careers for them and also what they are basing their decisions off of. Is it money that is the ultimate deciding factor? Or something else such as family or friends? Another gap that I found is the long term effects of students choosing career paths at such early ages. It would be interesting to know if these students are ultimately happy with the careers they choose as an early teenager and if they thought this system was beneficial or detrimental in the end.
ReplyDeleteBarr, Bob. “Children shouldn’t be forced to pick career paths.” Daily Caller. 21 Dec 2011: n. page. Web. 28 Jan. 2014
Health disparities in LGBT communities are issues that have been always present, however it wasn’t until 2010 that the Affordable Care Act authorized the collection of health data of LGBT populations in order to analyze and better the treatment given to these patients. But why did it take so long for the government to start making these changes? Some of the most important reasons are that only a handful of researches have been done that involve LGBT communities and their health, and also only a handful of institutions in the U.S. actually teach something about LGBT health. Just like scientific claims, in order to prove them you need evidence, which is what happened when LGBT health related issues were addressed. There was not enough research, besides HIV-related, that could back up the claims done by LGBT members. There is also a lack of resources for health students and professionals when it comes to finding medical education about the LGBT community. (Rutherford et al. 2012). As part of my project I will try to contribute to the elimination of the existing gap of lack of research regarding how to improve the healthcare provided to LGBT individuals and how to make them feel comfortable when needing to see a doctor or any other healthcare professional.
ReplyDeleteMy research explores how conversation between men and women are different and why this causes a conversation barrier between genders. I don’t think it is either genders fault for the communication barriers that are present between genders but I do think for a lot of people it is frustrating to not know how to communicate with a member of the opposite gender. A lot of research has been done on how development over a person’s lifespan is a very significant contributing factor as to why genders communicate differently, but none of the research I have read has said why this is, or what can be done to mend the communication barriers starting at a younger age. I was thinking that I could write about why boys and girls communicate differently even starting from such a young age and maybe look at some factors such as the expectations that romantic movies have caused girls to have for boys, and the effect of texting and other technology has on communicating and why could hinder or help the communication gap between genders.
ReplyDeleteA lot of research has been done on this subject over the last two decades, starting in 1990s with Eleanor Maccoby, and continuing to present day researchers, so I could look at how divorce rates have gone up or down over that time period and examine how much of that is contributed to the communication barriers between genders. I want to also look at what girls and boys expect from each other and see if those expectations have an effect on the way they communicate with each other. I could look into how schools encourage genders to intermingle with each other during younger ages and if there is more that could be done. Overall, I really want to make the argument as to WHY genders communicate differently and what ways could be done to improve the gap in communication between opposing genders.
My goal is to explore how all these factors cause a communication gap and look into what can be done to improve communication between genders. I plan to observe different couples and how the communicate and then observe how each gender communicates with people from the same gender. I will ask them a round of interview questions as well to further explore how communication through technology and romantic films effect communication between genders.
The topic of digital currency is fairly new and only within this last year has it become very prevalent to the world. As a result of its newness very little has been said on the topic at all aside from various opinions on digital currency’s future or information about its origins. While some have opinions about what the future of digital currency may be, I have had yet to find any real information on the jobs that digital currency has created today. I found one source on how, due to the sudden coin mining craze which came about as Bitcoin became very successful, companies had begun making new computer products built for the sole purpose of mining digital currency. This article focused almost entirely on the mining potential of these new parts and the effect on digital currency that the new products had. The article did not even mention the fact that these companies must have hired at least some new employees to build these new computer mining parts. As digital currency becomes more of an integral part of the world, many new jobs are bound to be created in response to them. Canada has set up some ATM’s which allow the user to convert their Bitcoins into dollars. Someone had to have programmed that ATM and that person would have to have had a fairly extensive knowledge of Bitcoin itself. Also due to the sudden rise of the value of Bitcoin late last year, many very young individuals found themselves to be suddenly very wealthy due to small investments they had made a long time ago. This sudden influx of young wealthy individuals had to have some kind of effect on the economy. I want to research not just how digital currency will possibly effect the future, but also on how it has already effected the present.
ReplyDeleteWorks Cited:
Aron, Jacob. "Virtual Economy Looms As Digital Cash Grows Up.(Bitcoin, A Decentralized Digital Currency Based On An Open-Source Protocol)." New Scientist 2892 (2012): 22. Academic OneFile. Web. 19 Feb. 2014.
Animal rights has been a huge issue since the mid-1900s and is continuing to grow as a discussion. There are new laws being passed and repealed constantly, like the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act. There is no question that animal rights activists will do all that they can to ensure the wellbeing of every animal. The people who want to make a change in how society treats animals are not targeting animal activists through their many documentaries and public service announcements; they are targeting the average individual. The problem is, if the average person doesn’t already care, they will most likely continue on with their day without a thought about animal rights. These animal rights advocates spend too much money to simply be ignored. The gap that I will be trying to fill is which best type of media affects the average individual to get the desired results, and what strategies could be used. I would also like to look at why people choose to ignore the information that they do hear about animals. The advocates can then utilize that information to help them with their case.
ReplyDeleteCorey Gross
ReplyDeleteMr. Longhany
ENC 1102
19 February 2014
Locating Gaps
In conducting research about political scandals I found many scholarly research articles talking about how people react to scandals, or the potential results from a scandal. Interesting findings in my field of research include that “Declining trust in government in turn leads to less positive evaluations of Congress and reduced support for government action” (Chanley 1). Furthermore after conducting a multi-year study Dancey was able to conclude that “cynics do appear more likely to interpret ambiguous information in a way that negatively reflects on the actors involved” (Dancey 7). However, none of the articles I have read account for the fast pace at which our times are changing. That is, none of these articles account for how the media impacts the way we see political scandals in America. In able to enter the conversation I hope to conduct a study about how the media effects how we see political scandals.
ENC 1102-Section 0048
ReplyDeleteThe conversation for my research inquiry focuses around the main topic of objectivity, through different angles in each source. Some of these sources discussed the correlation of crime and measured level of fear, influence on society, crime in the media as infotainment, and a constructed context for crime in society. The use of objectivity in the media to frame crime has and can still is a problem in modern society. Some of the connections that I had found upon my sources are the consistent depiction of offenders with certain characteristics, the change in media depiction of crime overtime, rationalization of crimes, types of crime reported. When thought about in a broad context, these connections relate to and overlap one another on how they are depicted and exposed to society. While my latest source had been published in 2011, I looked at many of the suggestions for further research at the end of each article and raised some questions: Given that much of society believes what they saw in the news in earlier decades, and now that we have more resources such as photo editing software available to us, are people more skeptical now to what they see now or read than before? Given that a majority of what we hear in the news is about crime, has this affected the levels of crime over the years? Do people fear less or more nowadays when they see all of the crime of today being reported?
These questions represent some of the possible gaps that I have found in my research. What I found that many of my sources agree on in their discussions is that because of the way objectivity is used in the media, there is a constant lack of critical thinking about what people may see or read about crime. In expansion to this claim, some of the sources discuss how this lack of rationalization persuades those in society to act. None of the sources touched on the idea of skepticism about what is shown in the media. In planning how I will enter this conversation and fill in the gaps, I plan to maybe looking into conducting a method that involved crime in the media in different mediums, along with a few people in a focus group. Some ideas of different people that could be included in my focus group could be a police officer, lawyer and college students. My plan for conducting this method is to expand on the conversation that discusses rationalization of crimes by angling my focus on the idea of skepticism: Do people think more about what they read or see in the media today than in past societies? This method is also a good way of expanding on the conversation on the relationship between exposure, influence and fear.
The research question here is the evolution of same sex marriage. This is something that is a very powerful topic to me since it involves something I affiliate myself with. My research will involve studies done country wide and also worldwide with views of other countries in addition to the United States. It will focus on legal issues and the constitutionality of same sex marriage, the views of other countries where it is legal and also illegal and finally the views here in this country. There could be many gaps through out this topic since it can be so broad but also so specific if you make it that way. I have left my research sort of in the middle with this research being narrowed down to the three directions of study as stated above. Gaps that I have found and maybe could be changed is doing the same Social Survey study in many of these other countries just as in the United States does to see the attitudes and beliefs of those citizens. Having one generic survey could make the data more concise by allowing no room for other ideas or problems to play in. Another gap that I have located specifically with my research is I have no articles that seem to be against same sex marriage and this could in some way make it in a way flawed or at least to some readers who could think that way. There are many different ways to this research that one could go, and I have only stated three of the possible ways. You could study why people believe same sex marriage shouldn't be legal and specifically study them and why they have these attitudes and beliefs. You could study homosexuals and same sex couples themselves and see what in them makes them the way they are. Some of these examples may be self explanatory and simple but it could be interesting to dive into them to really get an understanding and answer to it. Its easy for someone to say they don’t believe in it but why?Explore their past, what makes them think this, how did they come to it. Same sex marriage is a very controversial and popular issues today and will be until there is a change and that change is same sex marriage being legal. There will always be gaps in research that will lead to new research and answer more questions while opening the door to so many more. No matter what you research there will always be gaps and someone will always find a way to do something different, new or see to it from a different angle just as I did in this current controversial issue of same sex marriage and homosexuality.
ReplyDeleteThe conversation that my research mainly focuses on is the acceptance and use of naturopathic or complementary and alternative medicine. Some scholarly articles discuss the political and media based acceptance and how it has helped this type of medicine become slightly more popular. There are also claims that advancing research and education in the field has helped professionalize it as well. One reoccurring criticism of the field is its lack of science/evidence-based research, However more studies are being conducted dealing with chronic diseases. Historically, naturopathic medicine used to be more widely accepted with licensure among one-third of the states while now it only exists in about 17. Even in a study done in Canada on adolescents using complementary or alternative medicine found three hindrances for using it which were lack of practices, money and transportation. Another study was conducted on how naturopathic doctors use blogs to overcome criticism and distribution of information not only for patients or health conscious individuals but also for other naturopathic doctors. It is evident that the government and media play a role in the acceptance of this type of medicine so one gap to consider could be does a certain political affiliation have an impact on the use of alternative medicine? Another would be if males or female are more inclined to use it to see who these doctors need to try to appeal to more. Another area to study would be to find out how people usually go about finding which doctors to use to see how naturopathic doctors could advertise more effectively to the general public. Other social factors like health decisions among different religions or cultures could be interesting to study as well.
ReplyDeleteThis research project is one that focuses on the topic of cyber bullying. As I conducted research into this field, I discovered that the leading cause of cyber bullying is social media and the improper use of it. From diving deeper into these sources, many questions raised including, “Is social media overall a negative thing?” or “How can we prevent cyber bullying from occurring?” These are all questions that came about thru my research and many are presented and talked about in detail in my paper. However, while researching and digging out sources I discovered that there are a few gaps in my research. Perhaps is the biggest gap that has surfaced is one on the topic of prevention of cyber bullying. Many sources I have found talk about different mechanisms that are used in social networks but I have yet to find a source that explains exactly what these mechanisms are and in great detail. It would be good for my paper and my research to understand the exact things being done to prevent cyber bullying. Another gap I found is that most people that are talking about this subject are third party observers, or outsiders looking in. I can’t seem to find quotes and or interviews with victims of cyber bullying, or the bullies themselves.
ReplyDelete"UP FRONT: Student Safety Or Privacy Invasion?." Information Management Journal 47.6 (2013): 17. Business Source Premier. Web. 16 Feb. 2014.
Margaret Anne, Carter. "Third Party Observers Witnessing Cyber Bullying On Social Media Sites." Procedia - Social And Behavioral Sciences 84.The 3rd World Conference on Psychology, Counseling and Guidance, WCPCG-2012 (n.d.): 1296-1309. ScienceDirect. Web. 16 Feb. 2014.
The gay rights is a recent example of a movement towards the progression of equality with to an oppressed group of people. Though it has made a lot of progress there are still held back in many way such as antigay education Bills, laws not allowing marriage or civil unions, the ability for employers to fire an employee for being gay and in general no real practice of equal protection as stated in the 14th Amendment. Though these stigmas come from many different places one big influence on the perception of homosexuals is teachings within church. In the article "The Role of Religion and Stress in Sexual Identity and Mental Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth" authors MJL Page and his courtiers address the correlation between religious homosexual youth, their families and the emotional stress they face after coming out of the closet. The study interviews 13 gay christian men and 10 gay jewish men along with their family members who participated. One conclusion drawn from the findings saw the expected outrage of a religious family not accepting their childs lifestyle with one Jewish father even going so far as to say "Do not come home until you are straight" and even more surprising these sentiments were similar through out all the members of the family with a brother even accosting his parents for not doing anything and "letting this happen"(Page et. all). On the other end of the spectrum there were parents who were more accepting of their children and just expressed the general love they had for there kids. Though conflicted a mother goes on to tell how she approaches her childs lifestyle claiming "I will let god handle my son how he wants to, but for now all I am going to do is love my son like I am supposed to" and another parents actually thanks god for giving them their child no matter what he believes. There is two ends of the spectrum in this article, but as expected the trend more so leaned towards a strained relationship wether it be completely destroyed or simply being less comfortable around family and usually involved the process of theistic triangulation, the act of using god or another higher power to argue your point against someone else's, to persuade a change in their children. A gap that I would find interesting to explore lie's in how the actual church community reacts to those families that embrace their gay children and don't try to use these theistic techniques to convince them what they are doing is sinful. Are these families met with any disapproving feedback and does it ever manifest physically? Is there any intervention with the church and forced counseling for the child? Is there an immediate annexation from the church for supporting someone who is gay? Or is there a trend of acceptance in certain religious affiliations with those who truly are absorbed in their religion or lead other aspects of their life religiously pure?
ReplyDeleteMJL, Page, Lindahl KM, and Malik NM. "The Role of Religion and Stress in
Sexual Identity and Mental Health Among
Lately there has been an increase in superhero themed entertainment such as the Man of Steel and Dark Knight movies. These movies glorify super heroes through their great deeds of heroism, abilities, and the evil they fight. One of these known evils is the villain the Joker who doesn’t have any super powers yet he has grown to be one of the most famous villains to exist in comic book history. One of the major characteristics of the Joker is his sanity that leaves you wondering what is wrong with him.
ReplyDeleteLooking at sources one of the gaps in my research is that between sources the writers switch between diagnoses of sociopath and psychotic (Dreyer 81). Looking at Dreyer’s analysis of the Joker played by Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight, he calls him a sociopath because he “fits” the characteristics. In Dr. Langley’s discussion with the other scholars present at comic-con 2011, him and his colleague define what it takes to be a sociopath or a psychopath (Langley 655-662). He clearly states the differences while providing examples to better understand each of the characteristics and he clearly states how they fit the Joker showing how the Joker may have characteristics of a sociopath but they all have been explained and shown how they fit him on a normal circumstances. This fits perfectly along with my research but the inconsistencies of how the “diagnosis” is thrown around does make the credibility of the paper fall, it needs proof. Also another gap is how the Joker changes throughout the ages and even between issues. This inconsistency makes the analysis of the Joker more difficult. With this in mind not all of the possible “Jokers” will be analyzed, maybe if I had a more extensive library it could have made the analysis for Joker more thorough.
Dreyer, Randolph. "Clap If You Believe In Batman The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan (Director)."Perspectives In Psychiatric Care 45.1 (2009): 80-81. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 Feb. 2014.
Langley, Travis. "Reflections on the Psychopathy of the Joker: A Comic-Con Panel Report."International Journal of Comic Art 13.1 (2011): 654-76. Print.
Kelly Costa
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Locating Gaps
Children in families with multiple siblings have different experiences growing up, these experiences differ from each other for mainly one reason; birth order. Birth order effects cause siblings to develop different personality traits, different intellectuality, and cause different conflicts amongst one another. So, to what extent do these birth order effects on children affect them individually as they become adults? The subject of birth order on young siblings has been researched for many years, but not as many people have researched on what happens when the siblings become adults.
In a journal entry titled “Our Problems Are Your Sibling’s Fault: Exploring the Connections Between Conflict Styles of Siblings During Adolescence and Later Adult Committed Relationships” written by Fatima Shalash and others at the University of Kentucky the idea of how conflicts we had with our siblings as children often reflect the conflicts we have within adult romantic relationships. In this entry it is found that “multiple types of conflict styles used with siblings during adolescence correspond to similar conflict styles used in adult romantic relationships.” (Shalash 288).
Throughout my own research I plan to find many aspects similar to the one found by Shalash. That the effects brought along by birth order on children are carried with them into adulthood when they are on their own. However, there are a couple of aspects that could skew my research and results. The first one being, how would the gender of each sibling affect how these siblings are brought up based on their birth order? The second one being, how the living conditions may also hinder how siblings were brought up. For example, how may the birth order effects of an economically stable multiple sibling family be different than siblings living within a family in poverty?
Shalash, Fatima M., Nathan D. Wood, and Trent S. Parker. "Our Problems Are Your Sibling’s Fault: Exploring the Connections Between Conflict Styles of Siblings During Adolescence and Later Adult Committed Relationships." The American Journal of Family Therapy 41 (2013): 288-98. EBSCO Host. Web. 16 Feb. 2014.
Age group is an important factor when considering potential donors to non-profit organizations. Since I am posting the majority of my surveys on my social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter I will not have much accessibility to the age group of 30 years and above. This age group is essential because they have a stable source of income in which they are the most prominent donors. The majority of the respondents in my surveys will mostly range from 18-29 years of age. These participants are more than likely in college and they almost certainly do not have extra money to donate religiously to charities. Not only does this skew my data but it puts a gap in my research since I will not have their judgments about charity misconceptions.
ReplyDeleteIn order for charities to gain prestige for their campaigns some must "re-brand to regain relevance” (Wilburn 1). This technique however is quite often considered offensive to the charities’ employees. Imagine a newly hired CEO changing a charities well-known slogan. Employees who have actively sought for their charities benefits may indeed feel insulted and outraged. In other words, why change the company when donors who have been donating will continue to donate even if it remains the same? “Employees may see less incentive for the charity to change as long as donors keep writing checks" (Wilburn 2). This internal problem may be a huge gap in this project. For example, the internal staff may view a change as a misconception; however, the public may like the new slogan etc. This is a gap that I may or may not be able to discuss in relation to the scope of my research.
Lastly, I may run into the problem that misconceptions about non-profit organizations are undeniably the truth. Overhead charges may truly cause a problem to donors; nonetheless many donors will continue to donate. Therefore are overhead charges really stopping the public from donating or is the majority putting up a façade and ultimately the underlying charges have no effect on the potential donor. This also will pose much difficulty to answer since there is probably little to no research done on the topic.
As I continue my research I may run into more potential gaps that I will have to address in my research paper.
Works Cited:
Wilburn, Robert C., and Peter Rogovin. "Misconceptions Often Undermine Charity Marketing Efforts." Chronicle of Philanthropy 24 (2007): Academic OneFile. Web. 5 Feb. 2014.
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ReplyDeleteThe CSI Effect in its totality has had much research done. It's distorting effect on the general public, university students, jurors, victims, offender, prosecutors, and in the courtroom in general. There's already many claims that the CSI Effect has a negative impact on jurors and how they deliver their decisions based on what they believe should be presented in court. Alongside that, also a counterclaim that it may instead be due to faulty prosecution practices due to law schools not teaching enough criminal law. There's even claims on how it puts pressure on policemen.
ReplyDeleteMany different aspects and perspectives have been looked at numerous times, and many angles have been viewed. However, from all of my research on the CSI Effect in wrongful convictions in the courtroom, I noticed there wasn't much research done on the aftermath of victims who have been wrongfully acquitted. Does getting away with a crime because of the lack of physical evidence make them more eager to commit more crimes? Or maybe make them stray away from that life? Does this make other offenders-to-be hopeful in not getting caught, if they watch the same TV shows to know how to get away with it as well?
My research includes the history and development of tattoos, while looking at the negative stigma that people have carried on from more recent decades. One gap in my study includes the time period between those of ancient cultures and the negative stigma adapted in the present time frame (21st century). How did tattoos develop such a negative outlook in society? Why did people start developing such a negative stigma towards a way cultures were defined? From having tattoos to being such a symbolic part of certain cultures, to now being oppressed, there is a missing gap in what is known. This major gap leaves out very important details to why negative stigmas where created and how they are carried on to today’s views. Another very important gap in my research is since the negative stigma carries on into the workplace, people who don’t have negative views towards tattoos still have to continue this stigmatization to fit into the work place. This stigma creates s cycle, making the tattoo community unaccredited.
ReplyDeleteIn Eric Madfis and Tammi Arford’s article, they write about how people with tattoos link their tattoos to some sort of narrative or meaning. Then when these people are asked to describe this narrative, and they receive some sort of judgment, they begin to regret their tattoos or decide to cover it or remove it. A gap in this conversation is there are people in the tattoo community who are beginning to look at tattoos for the aesthetic (Kosut) rather than getting tattoos for meaning or symbols. The gap presented is only applicable for those who have gotten tattoos for a purpose other than art.
Works Cited
Kosut, Mary. "An Ironic Fad: The Commodification And Consumption Of Tattoos." Journal Of Popular Culture 39.6 (2006): 1035-1048. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.
Madfis, Eric, and Tammi Arford. "The Dilemmas Of Embodied Symbolic Representation: Regret In Contemporary American Tattoo Narratives." Social Science Journal 50.4 (2013): 547-556. Academic Search Premier. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
The conversation i discovered in my research is of the cultural change in hip hop. The genre of hip hop has been through many stages and evolutions, from break-dancing, to gangsta hip hop, to old school, and so on. These articles explain where hip hop has gone and where it is believed to be heading as a genre. It is explained how rap music has been corrupted and turned into just a form of entertainment, just a marketing strategy. Even some rap artists speak out and explain their witnesses in the change in hip hop and the reasons some of the newer hip hop has appeared in today’s society and music. With all these sayings, they real provide no direct proof from the lyrics. So I want to lead my research more into the direction of the analysis of the top ten hip hop songs from each year and analyze them thoroughly.
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The debate about Ebonics is a continuing debate that is brought forth to the public every few decades. Many linguistics, scholars and professors have debated on whether or not Ebonics is a language and from there the debate continues on to the children who speak Ebonics and how this effects their education and their academic development. Many of the articles speculate on the Oakland resolution back in late 1996 and the negative response, this resolution had on the idea of recognizing Ebonics as a language in order to help their African American students get the resources that they need in order to help with their classes; in these articles they speak of what could have been done to help with the view on the resolution and the possible outcomes that could have happened had the story been properly viewed. Instead of focusing on the lack of positive coverage the articles should have focused on the stdents and how this could have helped them instead.
Hans Bonde, in an academic article called “Projection of Male Fantasies: The Creation of ‘scientific’ female gymnasts” focuses on Lindhard’s discovery of gendering on a certain male gymnast coach named Niels Bukh. Niels Bukh was the one to open the very first Danish gymnast school, and thanks to his routines, Lindhard took the opportunity to transform women’s gymnastics. Because the main focus is on a male coach, and along with other articles that I have found, I have noticed that there is a lack of participation in female coaches. There hasn’t been a lot of research done on the topic of why there aren’t enough female coaches however, there are leading factors that aid to tackle this unconcerned issue. For example, in the article, Lindhard is said to be a firm believer in difference feminism but does not go into further detail (Contradictory to what most want women to be in society: To hold high positioning jobs in the work force). Difference feminism creates an undertone stereotype to women that they can’t be considered equal to men. How does the stereotype of difference feminism hinder a woman’s goal of working at the top of the crust, such as training professional athletes in the Olympics?
ReplyDeleteBonde, Hans. “Projection of Male Fantasies: The Creation of ‘scientific’ Female Gymnastics.” International Journal of the History of Sport 29.2 (2012): 228-246. SPORTDiscus.
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ReplyDeleteAn issue shared among countless women is the topic of the ideal body image. The hip-to-waist ratio has been taken advantage of causing an enormous amount of women to undergo negative feelings about their appearance. That is, current trends point out that how women should wear/look. Even though there is much research about my topic I found the article "An Intervention For The Negative Influence of Media on Body Esteem by Cheryl Haas to be quite distinctive. This is because it is carried in a college student journal that gathered one hundred sixty women in a study of the said topic:The negative influence on body esteem. The study conducted is to somehow quantify the levels of the impact that the media portrays the "ideal" type, or the unattainable body image. We know clearly that the media affects the moods of girls growing up, and this article is the clear evidence that is needed to further my research. The study is conducted under strict guidelines to prevent any radicals coming into the research. They categorize the "ideal type/media portrayals" as "Attractiveness" and quantify Body Esteem with a Body Mass Index. Once the study was finished, they found no discrepancy to the original claim, that "(there is) significant effect for the interaction between condition and total Body Esteem and its factors of Sexual Attractiveness and Weight Concern". However in order to fully integrate this study to my research, several questions seem to jump at the limitations of this study. Such as, whether or not the 160 women can be an accurate portrayal of the demographics in the united states; as most of the women that participated were caucasian, do women oversees have the same reflection on the topic, what about the teenage demographics, or do ads give out an immediate response to women or is it something imbedded since adolescence? With that in mind, I propose to further narrow down the topic to the demographics the study conducted on, as I feel that there will be gaps and unexplained territories but perhaps by taking this first step, I can eventually expand it in such a way it can cover the broad diversification.
ReplyDeleteAn Intervention For The Negative Influence Of Media On Body Esteem. By: HAAS, CHERYL J., PAWLOW, LAURA A., PETTIBONE, JON, SEGRIST, DAN J., College Student Journal, 01463934, Jun2012, Vol. 46, Issue 2
In an article called Violent Lyrics in Heavy Metal Music Can Increase Aggression in Males by John F. Mast and Francis T. McAndrew, a study was conducted to show the influence of violent heavy metal lyrics on male college students.
ReplyDeleteFor the study, saliva samples were taken before and after the subjects listened to or did not listen to the music to show the change in testosterone levels. They did not go through with this because of an equipment failure tainting the saliva and making it untestable. This evidence would have made for a much stronger argument by showing the chemical statistics that go along with the hypothesis. The control group should have had some sort of music playing, whether it was heavy metal or not, because the study directly deals with listening to music with violent lyrics to see the effect on aggression. If the control group listens to nothing, they have nothing to test their hypothesis against since they are not listening to lyrics of any sort (i.e. happy, sad, violent, etc.). They also do not touch upon the volume of the music nor the tempo which are highly correlated with aggression. If the volume was at a high decibel, the group may naturally become more aggressive simply because of the environment and not the lyrics. The tempo of the music can have a large influence because the tempo is, in simple terms, the pace of the music. If the tempo is fast, it can naturally cause the people to become more active. When the male subjects become more active, their heart rates increase which can naturally elevate the testosterone levels and, in turn, the levels of aggression. This study has many flaws, however if it were conducted properly and in more detail, it could potentially form a theory.
Mast, John F., and Francis T. McAndrew. "Violent Lyrics In Heavy Metal Music Can Increase Aggression In Males." North American Journal Of Psychology 13.1 (2011): 63-64. Business Source Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.
Michael Mondello and Joel Maxcy, in the academic article “The impact of salary dispersion and performance bonuses in NFL organizations,” try and understand the inner workings of the pay-for-play business model that the NFL uses to entice its players. While the article managed to cover a lot of information, it also left a few gaps in the research. One of the most obvious gaps that I found wasa lack of a concrete example that named a player and explained his salary. I found that by ommitting this detail, the paper loses some of its otherwise pretty impecable credibility. Another gap that I believe exists in the paper is a lack of a survey. Whereas a survey is not necessarily essential to the piece, I feel as though it may have given the paper a little more in terms of connecting with the audience and detail in research. Other than that, the paper, at least to me, is full in detail and keeps the reader interested through its entirety. There are a few small gaps, but the paper is fundamentally sound as far a research is concerned.
ReplyDeleteMondello, Michael, Joel Maxcy "The impact of salary dispersion and performance bonuses in NFL organizations." Management Decision, Vol. 47 Iss: 1, pp.110 - 123. Web. 19 Feb. 2014.
Men and women have tend to have a very difficult time communicating with one another, whether it be the way women express their emotions or the way in which women think men seem to lack emotion, many authors have stated in my research that men and women express themselves so differently that it tends to become much like a cross cultural barrier. A majority of the articles I have read seem to state that men and women have different attitudes when becoming committed-women tend to get more involved whereas men tend to be more passive, they also state the different conversations men and women have, for example women have conversations to discuss their feelings and letting each other know they care whereas men tend to tease each other and be more humorous. Although the articles seem to locate the barriers between men and women they don’t seem to pinpoint a solution or ways around these “barriers”, they also lack the evolution of relationships such as how less people tend to be married or how committed relationships seem to be less common. For my project I plan to survey men and women and ask what they would rather feel, as in a sense of emotions such as respect, loved, etc. and different questions that are related and then compare the differences I find between genders, I also would like to interview a younger couple vs an older couple and see how those relate or if anything has changed throughout time as well as if they tend to have the same or different problems.
ReplyDeleteIn my research so far, I have noticed several gaps within only child topic-areas that have yet to be addressed. Although some gaps have been explored, there is a lack of research for others.
ReplyDeleteWhile researching personality traits of only children, I have come across few sources that "track" these traits throughout an only child's life. In other words, many studies are done on young children or teens, but few on adults. This gap leaves a lot of questions to be answered; do only children continue to have "spoiled" personality traits; do only children become less affected by their lack of siblings as they age; do the only child stereotypes exist at a different level in adults. I cannot possibly bridge this gap with the research available to me, but hopefully by conducting personal research of my own, I will be able to start the first steps to finding more about adult only children.
Another area where I have found a noticeable gap is in qualitative research. Many of the studies I have seen are mostly quantitative, meaning they work with numbers and statistics. Although these studies are beneficial to my topic, I feel that most of the sources I have are similar. There is a severe lack of qualitative research. I could use personal stories and outlooks on being an only child as well as these number based studies. Because of this huge gap, I will send out personalized surveys / interviews with only child candidates I have chosen. With this I hope to contribute to the research on only children and benefit others who look for more qualitative research, like me.
Vicky Lam
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“Cultural Factors influencing the mental health of Asian Americans” examines the factors that can be detrimental to the psychology of Asian Americans. She looks at the factors of language, age, gender, traditions, social stigma, and other factors. They found that many traditional Asian families look down on individuals who seek out help from clinicians and that the family usually tries to take matters into their own hands by using their own types of medicines to care for the individual.
This article can also look at how immigrant Asians have trouble with conformity within the US or other countries as well. It can look at how location of the place can affect the individual because living in different locations definitely changes a person’s ideals of how they can grow at the place. Racism can also be a strong factor to look at because discrimination within the individual’s life can make them either depressed or stronger to become better than their discriminators.
Kramer also encourages the individual to seek out psychological help, but she should also look at how the remedies of traditions work as well. The culture has been practicing those methods for years, so there could possibility that it could have effect on the individual. She points out that most find mental illnesses as an imbalance in their life so they need to learn to re-balance their life through a variety of other methods. From personal experience, some people practice mediation or do physical exercise to help re-balance their body to get it back on track.
Kramer, Elizabeth J., Kenny Kwong, Evelyn Lee, and Henry Chung. "Cultural Factors Influencing the Mental Health of Asian American." Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Western Journal of Medicine, Sept. 2002. Web. 15 Feb. 2014.