Exploration of a Journal Article
Exploration of a Journal Article
In
Sociology
Lanika K. Jones
Professor Robert Hammes
Introduction to Sociology
May 4, 2013
The article I choose was by Amy E. Singer, Ph.D. “A Novel Approach: The Sociology of Literature, Children, Book and Social Inequality. While reading this article I saw that this was a primary review of an existing research. The author mentions findings from another researcher Wendy Griswold a lot through this article. So this here shows that she will bases her hypothesis from existing sources. Singer “would build on Wendy Griswold’s methodical approach by combining humanistic and social methods in order to study American children’s novels and their production contexts. (Pg2)
The thing I learned from this article is that children’s books are very influential in a child mind and t young age. Children are like sponges the information that is given. Singer (2011) state in her article” That old fashion notions that an author simply imparts, by writing words on paper, ideas and information to a porous reader has been replaced with an argument about implied reader who does not absorb a text so much as work to understand (Pg5) From this as we discussed in one of our discussion about mass media and how it have a influence on children perception on women being sexual icons. I look at this like as parents are involved where they can explain what is right or wrong.
As I just state how children perceive the information that they are reading and giving to their everyday life. This article is based around one’s perception of information retained. This article can tie into our textbook in Chapter 1. Where the Social Conflict Approach play a significant role through out this article. “Social conflict approach is a framework for building theory that sees society as an arenas of inequality that generate conflict and change” (Macionis 15). In the article Singer explain how she see how the social conflict approach affect young reader. “I find
In
Sociology
Lanika K. Jones
Professor Robert Hammes
Introduction to Sociology
May 4, 2013
The article I choose was by Amy E. Singer, Ph.D. “A Novel Approach: The Sociology of Literature, Children, Book and Social Inequality. While reading this article I saw that this was a primary review of an existing research. The author mentions findings from another researcher Wendy Griswold a lot through this article. So this here shows that she will bases her hypothesis from existing sources. Singer “would build on Wendy Griswold’s methodical approach by combining humanistic and social methods in order to study American children’s novels and their production contexts. (Pg2)
The thing I learned from this article is that children’s books are very influential in a child mind and t young age. Children are like sponges the information that is given. Singer (2011) state in her article” That old fashion notions that an author simply imparts, by writing words on paper, ideas and information to a porous reader has been replaced with an argument about implied reader who does not absorb a text so much as work to understand (Pg5) From this as we discussed in one of our discussion about mass media and how it have a influence on children perception on women being sexual icons. I look at this like as parents are involved where they can explain what is right or wrong.
As I just state how children perceive the information that they are reading and giving to their everyday life. This article is based around one’s perception of information retained. This article can tie into our textbook in Chapter 1. Where the Social Conflict Approach play a significant role through out this article. “Social conflict approach is a framework for building theory that sees society as an arenas of inequality that generate conflict and change” (Macionis 15). In the article Singer explain how she see how the social conflict approach affect young reader. “I find
References: Jerz, Dennis G, (April4, 2001). Academic Journals Compared to Magazines. Retrieved from http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic1/journals-compared-to-magazines/ Macionis, John J. (2010). Sociology (Strayer Univeristy ed.). Boston MA, Person Learning Solution: Prentice Hall Singer, A. E. (2011). A Novel Approach: The Sociology of Literature, Children 's Books, and Social Inequality. International Journal Of Qualitative Methods, 10(4), 307-320.