A Feminist Analysis of Seventeen Magazine: Content Analysis from 1945 to 1995
Read this article and answer the question that i attatched – J.A. Schlenker, S.L. Caron & W.A. Halteman (1998). A Feminist Analysis of Seventeen Magazine: Content Analysis from 1945 to 1995. Sex Roles, 38: 135-149.
SOCIOLOGY 4111
QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ANALYSIS AND CRITIQUE OF RESEARCH DESIGN
Name:
Citation (either APA or MLA):
(NOTE: here you should give a citation of the work you are reviewing, the way you would put it in a bibliography)
1. Summarize the main questions addressed.
On what do you base your summary? Circle as many as apply:
• preface
• introduction
• conclusions
• index
• jacket write-up
• blurbs (i.e., quotes on cover of book)
• specific statement(s) on page(s): __________________________________________
• other: _________________________________________________________________
From 0 to 10, rate the importance and tractability of the question(s):
[Tractability refers to how easily someone else could have done this research using the same
methods and procedures.]
importance (0=trivial; 10=profound) ____________
tractability (0=impossible; 10=easy) _____________
Summarize the reasons for your ratings.
2. To what previous body of work, if any, does the author claim to be contributing? Or, how does the work fit into the existing research knowledge and literature? What literature is discussed, and how does the researcher add to it? Circle as many as apply:
• fills an information gap
• confirms accepted answers to old questions
• modifies accepted answers to old questions
• confirms contested answers to old questions
• challenges accepted answers to old questions
• provides new answers to old questions
• changes accepted questions and answers
• other: __________________________________________________________________
State your evaluation of the claims and give your reasons.
3. What aspects of observation does the work adopt for the phenomenon? Circle as many as
apply:
• cognitive (how people think, believe or strategize)
• emotional (how people feel or experience)
• discursive (how people argue, although not necessarily believe or feel; can be an impersonal, disembodied cultural logic)
• hierarchical (social relations of power, e.g., based on gender, race/ethnicity, social class, age, rank, etc.)
• other(s)? (please specify) ______________________________________________________
Rate the effectiveness (0-10) of the work’s observations of the aspect(s) in
question. Then, give the reasons for the ratings:
rating
effectiveness _______
Specify your reasons.
4. What method(s) does the work use for collection of evidence concerning the unit(s) and aspect(s) of observation? Circle as many as apply:
• unclear
• survey
• in-depth interviews
• focus groups
• participant observation
• public observation (without participating)
• systematic textual (i.e., content) analysis—including websites, visual images, symbolic spaces
• reading of historical archives
• compilation from published accounts
• collective biography
• extracts from registers or other formal records/rosters
• compilation of organizational statistics
• photo, video, film or other visual images documentation
• other: _____________________________________________________________________
Summarize how and how well the work uses the method(s).
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