Ashley Davis
Comp: 106
Professor A. Yerks
Oct. 7, 2009
Academic Article Summaries
Due to it being one of my chief areas of study, the chosen genre of each of my articles is sociology. The articles focus on the sociological stand point of the relevance of race within the act of remembering. Though memory remains the main theme between the three; they each explore the mechanisms used to engage in remembering and instances of specific memories in distinct manners.
Within “Generations and Collective Memory” Revisited; Race Region, and Memory of Civil Rights from the American Sociological Review( 2004), Larry J. Griffin explores a confirmed theory that suggest that certain age groups recall distinct world events differently; helping to create generational identity. Griffin aims to revise this theory in the specific case of civil rights and directs his argument to all critics of collective memory. He finds that this theory and its principles provide vastly different outcomes in regards to civil rights. He argues region and race are solely responsible for the discrepancy. The theoretical idea expressed is that where highly charged events happen, consciousness and memory are shaped, suggesting that the idea of social location of generational identity information is place specific, as well as age and race dependent. Griffin states that “Before we understand how people deploy memory, however, we must know what people remember and why they remember the particular events they do.” Griffin relates his findings in an academic style using sociologic terms while dually making it decipherable to any reader. The article represents science through its nature of study and observation.
Since studies of race relations generally ignore collective memory’s role in shaping racial norms and attitudes, Griffin and Bollen analyze how memories of racial oppression, conflict, and reconstruction shape race relations within the article “What Do These Memories Do? Civil Rights Remembrance and Racial Attitudes” from the American Sociological Review (2009). They examine how American’s recollections of the civil rights movements influence their racial attitudes and racial policy preferences.
Within Individual Differences in Race Schematicity as Predictors of African American and White Children’s Race-Relevant Memories and Peer Preference from The Journal of Genetic Psychology, Gary D. Levy studies how stereotyping is positively associated with inaccurate memories of race with children.
Each of the articles concludes that race is a major factor within categorizing what each individual remembers.
(Please don’t comment on the missing aspects, clearly I’m aware of that seeing that it’s a very rough draft I’m going to provide more detail. Try to focus your attention and comments on what you can take from what I’ve provided and what information would add to the overall substance.) Thanks
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When it came to the article summarys, the first summary was very good. Full of great information, and you seemed to have highlighted the main points. What you may want to consider for tying you're three points together is how race and memory do interrelate. I know we are looking for keywords that relate to all three, but if you could create a phrase or general thought, I think that will certainly help, and may make it easier in the process of filling out the rest of your two articles.
ReplyDeleteGood essay for what is done. The intro is very good how you set the tone for the rest of the essay. The summary does a good job explaining key parts and is interesting to the reader.
ReplyDeleteI felt that the paper was just bursting with information. I liked how the first paragrapg included actual quotes from the author. Also i liked how you stated what the topic was going to be and how it links the three articles together. On a final note the paper reads very formally, i like that. To casual of a tone sometimes makes papers feel not as informative.
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