Hooking Up by Kathleen A. Bogle. is a sociological study of people before and after college about the sexual phenomenon of "hooking up". Hooking up is the way mostly younger generations meet people and instead of courting the other person they have sex and usually never talk again. The term "hooking up" can be linked back to the mid nineteen eighties (Bogle 2008). Hooking up is very prevalent on college campuses and that is where Bogle 's study takes place. Bogle proves many arguments in this study. Her main one is that the environment that one lives in affects how people take part in sexual and romantic relationships while in college or after graduation. Also she talks about how the sexual norms have changed since the "dating era" differ from the new hooking up mentality. Bogle 's study evaluates how young people interact and behave in a social setting while in college and after. This study is sociological because she evaluates young people. College is a social institution that molds the younger generation. Bogle used this concept to show how the environment molds college students when it comes to the topic of "hooking up". She discovered that most people think that everyone was doing the same thing some people believed that what they were doing was not bad. Conley the author of You May ask Yourself explains gender roles as sets of behavioral norms that are assumed to accompany one 's status as either male or female (Conley 2015).
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Conley says that men are supposed to be independent, competitive, and aggressive. Although women are supposed to be dependent, emotional, and nurturing. this is a social construction made by society. Bogle uses this concept to explain why women hook up. She argues that women hook up to create a relationship. Bogle says that because of women 's gender role of being the dependent one in the heterosexual relationship women hook up because they are trying to attract a mate. Although Bogle says that males in college just want to have many sexual partners as possible with no strings attached. This is explained because of the socialization of gender roles because men are supposed to be more independent and remain single. The environment changes post college most people feel safe when they hook up in college because they go to a party on campus and can go back to a dorm where if some sexual assault happens they can identify their offender. Although when people enter the post college bar scene women feel unsafe because there is random people there that is not affiliated with their school. This reason can explain why the post women tend to not hook up as much due to the gender role of having a heightened sense of danger women will not easily go home with a stranger that they met drunkenly at the bar (Conley 2015). Due to this danger Bogle points out that post college is more of a Courting relationship (Bogle 2008). The primary method of research used by Bogle was interviews. she interviewed seventy six people from two different universities, a state school and a Catholic school. This method has some good pros but has cons that can skew the data. A pro is that it can get a lot of different opinions on the subject, but one major flaw is that
Conley says that men are supposed to be independent, competitive, and aggressive. Although women are supposed to be dependent, emotional, and nurturing. this is a social construction made by society. Bogle uses this concept to explain why women hook up. She argues that women hook up to create a relationship. Bogle says that because of women 's gender role of being the dependent one in the heterosexual relationship women hook up because they are trying to attract a mate. Although Bogle says that males in college just want to have many sexual partners as possible with no strings attached. This is explained because of the socialization of gender roles because men are supposed to be more independent and remain single. The environment changes post college most people feel safe when they hook up in college because they go to a party on campus and can go back to a dorm where if some sexual assault happens they can identify their offender. Although when people enter the post college bar scene women feel unsafe because there is random people there that is not affiliated with their school. This reason can explain why the post women tend to not hook up as much due to the gender role of having a heightened sense of danger women will not easily go home with a stranger that they met drunkenly at the bar (Conley 2015). Due to this danger Bogle points out that post college is more of a Courting relationship (Bogle 2008). The primary method of research used by Bogle was interviews. she interviewed seventy six people from two different universities, a state school and a Catholic school. This method has some good pros but has cons that can skew the data. A pro is that it can get a lot of different opinions on the subject, but one major flaw is that