Sunday, 9 March 2014

W:14 Shanice Grocia Structure


My drawing for my podcast’s structure has a sharp incline, a downward curve, and then a second smaller “hill” type structure to a steady decline. In the section with the steady incline, this represents the buildup in where I explain my own personal experience with my name and the meaning behind “distinctively black names” as well as the history of people’s economic and social standing in the 1900’s ‘Black Power’.

The first distinctive curve in the diagram is the area in which the argument in my podcast takes a noticable shift, with Marianne Bertrand’s and
Sendhill Mullainathan’s field study in employment having a name that suggests minority. As it differs from my primary study, The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names, by Steven Levitt and Ronald Fryer, it almost disproves their theory, but, as my diagram suggests, the two theories merge together to form a united understanding of the economic.

However, there is a second ‘hill’ in my diagram in which my podcast tackels another issue discusses boys with feminine names. This is where there is a slight incline and decline in the shape of a smaller hill where the theory builds up once more and combines with David
Kalist’s and Daniel Lee’s study, First Names and Crime: Does Unpopularity spell Trouble? After this, there is a  final decline where I combine the studies to a final conclusion and include my own personal experience with my name.

Lastly, I counted 20 citations in 'Icon for Access'

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