Sexuality

Sexuality Quiz

Article #1, "Race, Religion, and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage"

The methods that was used in this article was General Social Surveys, with two other surveys, but those two didn't go as into depth pertaining to religious affiliation and demographics, so the authors focused on the data that ranged from 2006-2008.

The findings pertaining to race were interesting pertaining to how many people were against same sex marriage in 2006, white people opposed gay marriage by 50%, other races increased to 45.2%, and blacks went down to 64% (87). In 2008, the percentages of blacks opposing gay marriage went down to 58%, while the whites went down to 45.7%, and other races went down to 42.6% (87).

When it came down to gender, women were more supportive of same-sex marriage compared to men (89).

Rural residents were more supportive of gay marriage than southern residents (89).

People who have never been married or divorced individuals were also more likely to support gay marriage (89).

Education also had a toll on whether or not you supported gay marriage. The higher the education you had, the more likely you were to support gay marriage (89).

Religion also had a dramatic toll on whether or not you supported gay marriage. If you identified as a conservative protestant or catholic then you were less likely to support same-sex marriage. If you were nonaffiliated, or had no religious affiliation, then you were more likely to support gay marriage (89).

Article #2, "Talking about Sex: Religion and Patterns of Parent-Child Communication about Sex and Contraception"

The methods from this article were the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the National Study of Youth and Religion.

When it came to the findings of how parents communicate about sex based off of their religious attendance was fascinating. 22% of parents who attend church once a week never talk about contraception with their children (89). 47% of frequent church goers reported having a long discussion about sexual morality with their children (89). Members of the Black Protestant Church had the greatest amount of communication and comfort when talking about sexual topics to their children (89). Roman Catholics, Jews, Mormons, and people who were unaffiliated had lower levels of communication with their children about sex (89). Mormons put up a wall and tend to avoid the talk about the infamous "birds and bees" (89). Mainline Protestants had the lowest percentage rate of constant conversations about sex with their children, and also had the lowest rate of feeling at ease when discussing sex (89). A few other religions on the NSYR survey, except none for the Mormons, never talked to their child or children about sex (89). Even if you didn't identify with a certain religion, they were not likely to have the talk about sex with their children (89). Black Protestants had no issue in discussing birth control compared to Roman Catholics and Mainline Protestants (92).

Racial backgrounds took an interesting toll about the infamous talk. In this article, African-American parents were three times more likely to talk to their children about sex than Asian- American parents (92). Asian American, Whites, and Hispanics were less likely to talk about the morals of sex to their children than African- American parents (92).

The most interesting thing I found during this article was that parents of young girls were more likely to have the sex talk than parents who had little boys (92). I found that interesting because sex is characterized as to be more important for men because we don't shy away from discussing sex, as normally do women.

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Articles underlined and in Bold are required.  Each quiz you complete must include summary of the findings and methods of two articles listed in the reading list for the topic covered in the quiz.  One of the two articles must be a required article within the section covered by the quiz.  Again, the required articles are in bold and underlined.  if you do not include a required article you will fail the quiz.  If there are two articles listed as required, you may choose either or both of them (only one required article must be included in each quiz).  Note that there are two quizzes on crime, because there is such a large reading list on the topic.  You are allowed to only complete one of these two crime quizzes as a required quiz for course credit.  There is no restriction on which crime articles can be used for which crime quiz.

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Celitha Edwards Quiz#2 Sociology 111

The reading I chose to explore was "Sisterhood and Sexuality: Attitudes About Homosexuality Among Members of Historically Black Sororities". The method used for this study was in depth interviewing.  Based on the article I can conclude that homosexuality is still not an accepted lifestyle for members of Black Greek organizations. When it comes to the issue of homosexuality there is a large intersectionality between race, sex and age. ( Literte, P. E., & Hodge, C. (2012) The association between race and sexual preference is that in black communities it is not as easily accepted as in white communities.( Literte, P. E., & Hodge, C. (2012)

Also there was a comparison made between black sororities and fraternities. The rudimentary way of handling prospective members is by gauging their sexuality on a scale of femininity and masculinity. Sororities and fraternities do not explicitly ask and remember about their sexuality (Literte, P. E., & Hodge, C. (2012) however, in Black Greek Letter Organizations members are expected to maintain a heteronormative presentation at all times. ( Literte, P. E., & Hodge, C. (2012).  Any behavior that is contrary to the norm is shunned.

Black Greek organizations have close roots in Christianity. The Black Greek Organizations draw much of their structure from black churches. The influence of the black church teaches that homosexuality is a sin. Literte, P. E., & Hodge, C. (2012). The claim is made also, that homosexuality in the black community is a European taught behavior. The church also affirms that homosexuality is destroying the black family, since same sex couples cannot procreate. ( Literte, P. E., & Hodge, C. (2012).) As BGLO's advance in their social movements they still shy away from tackling the issue of gay rights just as the church has also done.

 

The required reading was "Race, Religion, and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage".  This article is based off of data collected through General Social Survey. This article details the findings from the research. Based on the data collected the researchers were able to conclude that the opinion on same sex marriage is heavily influenced by several factors such as religion, race, sex, demographics, education and political views; religion being the most influential. (Sherkat, D. (2010).African Americans tend to be more conservative in their religious practices and beliefs.( Sherkat, D. (2010).

Religion has the greatest pull on the opinion of same sex marriage. Even African Americans that were political liberals still held tight to their convictions on same sex marriage, lending no overwhelming support for gay marriage. The researchers attempted to find a positive association between political views and the respondents opinion on gay marriage. No such correlation was found. Despite their political views both parties remain firm in their opinion on gay marriage.

The factor of sex appears to cause aswing in the pendulum. Overall women appear to be more supportive of same sex marriage. ( Sherkat, D. (2010). Also single people show more support for gay marriage.Respondents that reign from the south seem to have the greatest concentration of opposition to same sex marriage.This can be tethered to the high prevalence of conservative churches in the south; bible belt.

A surprising find was that education is also a very present factor. Those respondents with a reported higher level of education are among the supporters of same sex marriage. ( Sherkat, D. (2010).

 

 

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*I had a major issue with improper citations in Quiz1. As an extra precaution I included a few in text citations. Though the words are my own, I still felt that I should include a citation just to be on the safe side.

 

 

 

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     In the article titled "Freaks, gold diggers, divas, and dykes: The sociohistorical development of adolescent African American women's sexual scripts" discusses women and societies stereotypes, going back as far as slavery days.  Scientists posted findings stating African American women are primitive, wild, sexually uninhibited and exotic.  This enforced the New worlds cultural norm belief system.  From this, four images emerged referencing African American women: The Jezebel, mammy, matriarch, and welfare mother became the foundation outlining African American communities and American society.  The Jezebels a young, promiscuous, exotic, oversexed woman.  This justified the raping by masters fulfilling their sexual needs and economic needs.  The mammy was an asexual overweight female slave or domestic servant.  She nurtured white families and put her masters family's need first.  However, her transition from an unpaid slave into domestic work did not exclude her from rape.  Another image included welfare mothers. Welfare mothers bred children uncontrollably and these kids became a burden to societies economy.  Yet another image, The Matriarch, conveys African American Woman who are contemptuous, controlling, emasculating, and only needed men for childbearing.  This justified the racial oppression, gender subordination, economic exploitation, and differentiates African American Women's roles, creating conflicting relationship foundations between African American males and women.  The three-dimensional scripts have been embraced by African American youth culture, reflecting within our everyday written or unspoken communication.  These four images reflect conflicting relationship within the eight scripts words used today: The Diva, Gold digger, Freak, Dyke, Gangster bitch, Sister savior, Earth mother, Baby mama. Societies acceptance allows media such as T.V, radio, and verbalize conversations which keep alive stereotypes and conflicting relationships.  These predominant symbolic control (of white mainstream) about African American communities transfer down into African American youth developing culture known as Hip Hop.  This reflects African American youth's anger and fears about their present lives.  The research method used general social surveys and researched culture and music using qualitative content analysis. 

     In another article titled "Race religion and opposition to same sex marriage" talks about same-sex marriage acceptance differences.  This study showed African American women were more opposed to same sex marriage than other cultures because they have more ties to the sectarian protestant religion and church attendance.  The study used quantitative methods.  The study looked at all the factors effecting same-sex marriage opposition.  The religions under study became the conservative, catholic, liberal or conservative, and church attendance.  Findings were these factors mattered but not enough in which it changed results. In 1988, study showed percentages opposing or strongly opposed same-sex marriage by racial groups.  The general social surveys showed blacks, whites, and others all believed the same about same sex marriage.  However, by 2004 showed big changes, declines opposing same sex marriage from 30% yes to 50% yes accounting whites and others.  However, blacks opinions stayed the same at 68.5%.  Why did blacks remain opposing same sex marriage?  The author used the regression analysis, using all the possible factors of influence and variables which support same-sex marriage.  The factors looked at gender, race, the year born, Marital status, geographic context (rural or suburban), lived in the north or the South states, number of children, education, income, and religion, which was the most important.  The reasoning showed African American women's high rate of participation involving decades in conservative religious denominations.  This proved religion played a role involving same-sex marriage opposition.  Another correlation showed African Americans voted for proposition 8 in 2008, because Barack Obama was running for president so African Americans flooded the voting polls tilting the scales against proposition 8. 

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Valerie 404

I chose the articles  " Attitudes and beliefs about homosexuality and same-sex marriage among a sample of South African students" and " Children having children: race innocence and sexuality education, " these articles both drew my attention, because one dealt with how  homosexuality was dealt with in another country while the other dealt with young adult girls or teenagers were having children due to the lack of knowledge on sex. The methods used for homosexuality article were using more than 100 undergraduate college students to answer a survey of eighteen questions to see how they felt about homosexuals and same sex marriage. The survey had statements to agree or disagree with, that also was worded in a strong emotion provoking way. The survey hit subjects that included the government's "thoughts" and how moral it was to be in a same sex marriage. What I predicted for the outcome of the survey's word choice seemed to be the result, many believed that it was wrong to allow for homosexuals to socially acceptable and have the same things such as a family or get married as heterosexuals do. I believe that the way that the questions were formed brought out the more religious and conservative nature of people due to the way that the statements in the survey were made.

The second article involved a more indepth study of how much sexual education their children should receive during school. This study took more than a year to complete with the interviews that were conducted with seventeen different people in variety of positions ranging from administrators to teachers to parents who participated in the debate for how the schools should educate their children on sex. The study took such a long time, because some of the interviews took half an hour while others were three hours. Most of the questions circulated over the 1990 debate of how much and what the content of the sexual education the children will receive in the future. The notes taken from this were mostly verbatim, so that the study would be  more credible. It was found that African American teenage girls were more likely to become pregnant due to the lack of education and how segregated the areas were. The places where the girls grew up were more impoverished areas where teen pregnancies were common. This study was conducted through an interviewing process and the data collected was from a recorder and verbatim notes.

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