Julie Betty constantly claims that it is impossible to get a completely objective perspective on any analytical research. This personal critique is a theme with the first few chapters and is very admirable.
As an attempt to introduce the book, Betty spends a great deal of effort in describing the context of the girls and their school. She explains her incentive behind the book and the contributing factors that lead her to end up at the location that she did.
Unlike Mcloud, Julie Betty gives the reader a much more complete illustration of the novels setting. She explains her tactics and strategies that she used to accumulate trust between members of opposing cliques. She seems to pay close attention to small details that might provoke a negative influence on her reputation with each group. For example, she goes into great detail about her apparel to bring about a neutral attitude.
Mcloud’s insight was matchlessly articulate but he failed to accomplish some of the thorough introductory details that might have been helpful for the reader to better understand the following raw data.
Betty constantly identifies the relentless subjectivity that is ingrained within all research, and this reoccurring honesty seems to give her work more credibility. She is constantly describing her personal influence on her interactions. A great deal of researchers seems to dismiss their own personal characteristic and purely dwell on the subject without recognizing their magnitude of their personal influence. Because of the mere title of a sociologist or researcher people tend to assume sociologists as an objective point of reference; Bettie reminds the reader that biases are fundamentally ingrained.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
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