SAGE Journal Articles

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Article 1: Eastman, J.T. (April 2012). Rebel Manhood: The Hegemonic Masculinity of the Southern Rock Music Revival. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

Questions to Consider:

  1. Summarize and explain the contradictory relationship the author examines between the Southern identity and mainstream US culture. Why is that contradiction important?
  2. What is the utility of the author’s discussion of hegemonic masculinity as it relates to the Southern identity situated in mainstream US culture? What does that help us understand about stereotypes and the identity making process?
  3. Summarize how levels of analysis examined in this study.

Article 2: Lee, M.R. (November 2011). Reconsidering Culture and Homicide. Homicide Studies.

Questions to Consider:

  1. Lethal violence is intersubjective in that it is co-constructed through the process of social interaction. Explain what this means to the author in relation to homicide.
  2. Summarize and explain the differences and similarities between rural Southern violence and urban violence.
  3. Culture can be used as a way to perform a particular identity for a particular audience, and much violent behavior is therefore not a manifestation of a specific moral orientation. What utility does this statement have for those researching using a labeling theory perspective?

Additional articles:

Bernburg, Jon Gunnar, Marvin D. Krohn, and Craig J. Rivera.  2006.  “Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency: A Longitudinal Test of Labeling Theory.”  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 43: 67-88.

Johnson, Lee Michael, Ronald L. Simons, and Rand D. Conger. 2004.  “Criminal Justice System Involvement and Continuity of Youth Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis.” Youth & Society 36(3): 3-29.

Ray, Melvin C. and William R. Downs.  1986.  “An Empirical Test of Labeling Theory Using Longitudinal Data.”  Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 23(2): 169-194.