Class Notes 3/26/07
Gender and Popular Culture
Class Notes
Research Team Presentation:
- Searched internet for similar blogs/papers to topics in class
- Found sites that could be used to analyze blogs
- Each group member had a different category of blog to research (i.e. reality TV, sitcoms, celebrities)
- Npr.org – great resource to use when blogging
- Check out more links at the bottom of the research team’s website to help with blogging; especially library resource links because they resulted in more hits of analytical sites rather than opinionated or fan sites.
Gender meaning – primary category, used for self identification; self – “normative definition”
Messner piece:
Elective affinity – group identity, can be related to “normative definition”
Organized sports = gendered institution
- Same gender reinforce pressure
- Gender and class related – increase/decrease with difference in income
i.e. lower class: sports only potential to thrive/make money