Last Wednesday, I talked about how my respondents rarely acknowledge how others help them with their scrapbooking. This isn’t meant to be a judgment because scrapbookers are like most of us–outside of people winning Oscars and Grammys–in that we fail to recognize how others have helped us along the way.
Scrapbooking Norms
This week, will begin a series of posts about sources of scrapbooking norms, which is one way scrapbookers are helped along the way. In sociology, norms are defined as expectations and rules of behavior. Later, I will discuss some scrapbook norms, but first, I will discuss the various sources of scrapbooking norms.
Where do scrapbookers learn the norms of scrapbooking?
- The Internet
- Idea books and magazines
- Scrapbooking celebrities
- Scrapbooking classes
- Industry workers
- Scrapbooking manufacturers
- Other sources
Over the next few Wednesday’s I will discuss each of these sources of scrapbooking norms, though there is definitely overlap among these sources. Can you think of any other examples of sources of scrapbooking norms? Feel free to leave a comment.
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.
