Miguel penate sociology sexuality

"Miguel Penate" 599 words

For my sexuality quiz I chose Race, Religion, and Opposition to Same‐Sex Marriage as the first topic and Racial Differences in Age at First Sexual Intercourse: Residential Racial Segregation and the Black-White Disparity among U.S. Adolescents as the second topic. The first topic compares statistics between white and black people on how they view same-sex marriage and what caused those views to be so different.  For their data research they used general surveys to compare statistics on (GSS) for results on questions regarding same-sex marriage. For their survey they looked into factors such as the support the subjects felt for same-sex marriage with answers like agree or disagree. The next factor was religion and how frequently they attended services whether it be Baptist, Christian, catholic, or in between. The third factor was political beliefs and the question was whether the subjects thought of themselves as liberals or conservatives, unfortunately this was unreliable due to limited number of African American republican subjects. The fourth factor was age variation which they assessed by comparing subjects that were born before 1940 and born in 1965 or after. The last factor used was sociodemographic variables which were conducted by the subject being male or female, how high their education level is, ethnicity, and whether they lived in rural areas or lived in the south at 16 and if so do they still reside there. The results of these findings were that in 1988 the statistics showed that there was hardly any difference among the races opinion on same-sex marriage, but as timed progressed they started to see change in race opinion as whites being less opposing to the idea of same-sex marriage while blacks stayed the same on opposition towards the idea. Why? Statistics showed that black women held a strong view based on their religion and were not willing to accept this idea. While white subjects were shown to be less in church and more easily to accept the idea of same sex marriage.

 The second topic was focused on comparing the age of whites and blacks when they were most likely to become sexually active based on age and other variables.  This particular study was conducted by using general surveys to compare research to previous studies. The data consist of various variables the first being age at baseline and the question was based on the age the subject first began to be sexually active from twelve to twenty-one. The second was primary person-level exposure. This was the comparison on race and ethnicity in the study as black and white. The third was person-level covariates which included the individuals, their family, and geographic attributes. The fourth was racial segregation and if the subjects were heavily segregated or not segregated at all. The last variable was the statistical analysis which consisted of the missing data. This had to do with single-parent household, maternal education, and gross house-hold income. The results were that blacks were at a more socioeconomic disadvantage, and usually had only one biological parent present in their household unlike the white subjects at baseline.  The other grate find was subjects with higher segregation rates were more likely to have sexual intercourse in adolescence mostly black subjects.  After examining both topics I've come to relies both studies had good observations but could have included much more factors to have better results. For instance topic one could have mentioned if any of the subjects had known any same-sex individuals. For topic two study could have included were adolescence unsupervised most of the time when they were home. Overall both topics were good surveys.