JOUR 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Melissa Farley, Ponzo Illusion, Ronald Weitzer
24 Feb 2016
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Weitzer (2005) examines three particular articles that are guilty of methodological flaws in his article. Specifically, he shows how the articles in question by jody raphael and deborah shapiro (2004), Melissa farley (2004), and janice raymond (2004), all contain flaws in their conclusive studies on prostitution. This response will identify two main flaws exemplified in the studies examined by. Weitzer as well as include suggestions on how to avoid the mentioned methodological faults. To begin, weitzer highlights how studies of prostitution can contain the unrepresentative sample methodological flaw. Weitzer (2005) states that too often the findings and conclusions drawn from convenience and snowball samples are not properly qualified as nongeneralizable (p. 938). The representative sample challenge basically involves drawing conclusions from a sample that justifiably represents the make-up of various groups and sub-groups involved, in this case, in the sex industry. An example of the previous flaw is shown in the weitzer (2005) article.
