Forwarded from the SCA-Librarians list

[bunnyjadwiga]

"Social Identitites Within the Society for Creative Anchronism" by Zane Gardner Lee, December 2005

http://txspace.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/3148/etd-tamu-2005C-SOCI-Lee.pdf?sequence=1

Interesting, though he definitely needed a better editor, not to mention spending less time blathering about the intricacies of the SCA.

Comments

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

It was a little interesting, seems I could have skipped the whole first half of the paper

[iestynapmwg.livejournal.com]

It is an interesting idea, to study SCA participants this way. But you're right about needing more porrf-reeding. Besides that, there's the classic sociological study flaw of using self-selected participants. The author himself mentioned this as a reason for the low response rate, but completely missed that it might skew any results.