SOC 323 Adkins Covert: Scholarly Article Autopsy

1. Break into groups and assign in-group tasks.
2. Complete a worksheet that answers specific questions about a scholarly article.
3. Look at a non-scholarly article and compare the two types.
4. Present your findings to the class.
5. Turn in your worksheet and the paper copy of article 1.

Please use this article to answer the questions in the first part of your worksheet:

Group 1:  Boys Doing Art: The Construction of Outlaw Masculinity in a Portland, Oregon, Graffiti Crew

Group 2:  Masculinities and College Men's Depression: Recursive Relationships

Group 3:  Brotherly Love: Homosociality and Black Masculinity in Gangsta Rap Music

Group 4:  ‘The Whole Playboy Mansion Image’: Girls’ Fashioning and Fashioned Selves Within a Postfeminist Culture

Group 5:  Smash Mouth Football: Identity Development and Maintenance on a Women’s Tackle Football Team

Please complete the last part of your worksheet by comparing this article to your scholarly article:

Group 1:  Graffiti’s Story, From Vandalism to Art to Nostalgia

Group 2:  Black Boys and Mental Health

Group 3:  Back Talk

Group 4:  Little Women

Group 5:  Girls Can Tackle Football, Too