My follow-up book to African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision (www.legacyandvision.com) will also feature a chapter--based on a qualitative study--on homosexuals in BGLO fraternities. If you would like to share your thoughts--confidentially--on this issue, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Alan_DeSantis/
Your comments will only be sent to the main researcher on the project, and your name and organizational affiliation will not appear in the book.
That is find. I am savvy enough to use multiple approaches to collecting data on touchy topics. The book chapter is almost complete. It's based on a qualitative study based on 3 college campuses--2 HBCUs and 1 majority institution. The research is derived from interviews as well as a focus group. There was also an on-line survey to which about 20 folks responded. It should be an interesting chapter.
Originally posted by Dr. Parks That is find. I am savvy enough to use multiple approaches to collecting data on touchy topics. The book chapter is almost complete. It's based on a qualitative study based on 3 college campuses--2 HBCUs and 1 majority institution. The research is derived from interviews as well as a focus group. There was also an on-line survey to which about 20 folks responded. It should be an interesting chapter.
With such a small sample, how thorough and in-depth will that chapter be?
I'm not sure what you mean? Most social scientific studies are not national samples of hundreds or thousands of members. They are usually small data sets designed to incrementally moves science forward. The authors of that chapter have broadend their research beyond what most accepted studies actually do--multi-site data collection. Keep in mind, the chapter is not about the experiences of homosexual members but largely about the attitudes of professes htereosexual members about homosexual members. There are, I believe, a few homosexual/down-low members interviewed. Scholarship has to begin somewhere. Requests for individuals to respond to an on-line survey was sent out across a number of list-serves. Twenty people responded. We get what we can and move from there.
Not for the most part. I wished we had more homosexual members respond to the on-line survey. It is a touchy subject, whcih likely scares folks off from (confidentially) discussing how they feel about it. Also what is regretable is that despite to number of discussions I've seen about it on list-serves, folks seem unwilling to engage in a substantive dialogue about it elsewhere.
I was under the incorrect impression that the responses to your study were from homosexual members.
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