Each Wednesday I will write a post about my dissertation. Last week, the post discussed my sample of scrapbookers. This week I am going to tell you about my sample of family and friends of scrapbookers.
For my dissertation, I also interviewed a family member or a friend of 10 of the scrapbookers in my sample. I interviewed this group to understand if the message scrapbookers intend is being communicated in their scrapbook pages. I’ll talk about that in another post. Today, I’ll tell you about this part of the sample.
Six of the 10 family or friends that I interviewed were either married or partnered to the scrapbooker. One was a friend, one was the scrapbooker’s son, one was the scrapbooker’s mother, and one was the scrapbooker’s mother-in-law. Two respondents in this set of interviews were gay or lesbian. There was one black pair of respondents in this group, wihle the rest were white. All respondents except the college students had household incomes of at least $40,000. They ranged in age from 10 to 65 with a mean age of 36.6. All had at least some college except for the child.
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Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
