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Understanding Hookup Culture: Sociological Investigation

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Understanding Hookup Culture
This video Understanding Hook-up Culture related to the chapter in our textbook called Sociological Investigation. Many terms and ideas from the text were brought up in the film. The first step in the sociological investigation is: What is your topic? The book says to pick a topic that interests you and is important. Paula England wanted to understand what the hooking up culture and sexuality was of college students and how it was gender based. This was her focus for her research and throughout her data she found some interesting things about the hookup culture of college students. A sample is a part of the population that represents the whole. Her sample size was 18 different universities where she gathered data, and could make inferences about the population of college students as a whole. There were two different sampling methods that were used to gather data from students, she had students use interviews and online surveys. Interviews …show more content…

Norms are rules and expectations by which a society guides the behaviors of its members. Some talked about in this research was that men are supposed to initiate contact after sexual encounters and more men ask girls out on dates then vice versa. These norms can vary from culture to culture, but are adopted over time until they become the normal standard. The textbook was talking about people conforming to cultural norms and you could see this in the data she showed. Even though dating culture may be shifting from dating to hooking up, the norm of men doing most of the initiating still is relevant. This also ties into real and ideal culture. The norms suggest how people should behave but not everyone follows the norms and you get real culture. Like she discussed in the film, some women were making the first initiation or doing the asking out, which breaks the norm that men should be doing the asking

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