Overview
Workbooks provide opportunities to relate course materials to media, scenarios, and supplemental resources in an experiential/reflective manner. Full credit replies meet length requirements, sufficiently address every component of each prompt, adhere to format/citation specifications outlined in here/our syllabus, and cite at least two course concepts. A typical paragraph consists of 4-7 sentences. Length specifications indicate the minimum expected, but you will not be marked down for exceeding limits. Insights should be original, well thought out, and supported by materials.
Type responses onto this form, using a single-spaced standard
12-point Times New Roman font on numbered pages with 1-inch margins.
prompt: Select an unconventional, stigmatized or kink activity, identity, or community that you are not very knowledgeable about. Do not analyze a topic already reviewed in class – like furries, pups, foot fetishes, gay-for-play, or BDSM/Leather. Then, in a similar manner as the pup play study, elaborate on each of these aspects:
- Describe 3 ways that an outsider could misinterpret aspects of this (1 paragraph)
- Locate a few personal accounts by self-identified practitioners from blogs, podcasts, articles, interviews, or academic studies. Present some accounts, experiences, benefits, and/or meanings that were expressed from the standpoint of practitioners (2 paragraphs)
- Summarize the strengths of using grounded theory to understand this behavior and how it can address limitations, biases, and other problems due to ethnocentrism (1 paragraph)
…up to +6 points (+0.5 x 3 misinterpretations among outsiders; +3.5 experiences & meanings shared by practitioners; +1 benefits of grounded theory; +1 how grounded theory addresses & improves on problematic/ethnocentric understandings)
use either of the following to cite two sources into the writing.