Description of Study 17/10/07
(After Pg Cert. meeting)
Outline of proposed areas of inquiry & research:
Backyard wrestling is seen as a negative behavioural phenomenon that is directly attributable to the consumption of televised wrestling, we can infer from this that should there have been no televised wrestling - then there would be no backyard wrestling.
1. The first task of the study is to outline the problem of backyard wrestling, then review the academic literature that proposes there are negative behavioural effects related to the consumption of televised wrestling.
Here there could be a possible content analysis in which the study will determine how much of the behaviour is direct imitation of televised wrestling.
The study would like to suggest that only a minority of televised wrestling consumers reproduce wrestling in their ‘backyards’.
2. The second task of the study is to produce data quantifying the percentage of televised wrestling consumers who engage in backyard wrestling.
The study would like to suggest that as only a minority of televised wrestling consumers engage in backyard wrestling, the text itself can not be the only, or main cause for the existence of the phenomenon. The study would like to suggest that backyard wrestling is caused by a specific functioning of the human brain-mind in relation to changed environmental conditions.
3. The third task of the study is to test a strand of evolutionary psychology (as yet that strand is undecided) against the phenomenon.
i, This testing would include backyard wrestlers form different geographical locations
ii, The testing may take the form of questionnaire, survey, or ethnography.
iii, The testing may utilise a control based upon wrestling consumers who do not engage in the phenomenon.
The study would like to suggest that only a minority of televised wrestling consumers reproduce wrestling in their ‘backyards’.
2. The second task of the study is to produce data quantifying the percentage of televised wrestling consumers who engage in backyard wrestling.
The study would like to suggest that as only a minority of televised wrestling consumers engage in backyard wrestling, the text itself can not be the only, or main cause for the existence of the phenomenon. The study would like to suggest that backyard wrestling is caused by a specific functioning of the human brain-mind in relation to changed environmental conditions.
3. The third task of the study is to test a strand of evolutionary psychology (as yet that strand is undecided) against the phenomenon.
i, This testing would include backyard wrestlers form different geographical locations
ii, The testing may take the form of questionnaire, survey, or ethnography.
iii, The testing may utilise a control based upon wrestling consumers who do not engage in the phenomenon.
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