Identify two journal articles based on empirical work that approach a subject in a contrasting manner. In each case consider the papers using the following list of questions then compare and contrast the two different approaches to the issue.

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Name: Gareth John Tanswell

Student Number: 030036088

University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Institute of Geography and Earth Studies

Title: Doing Human Geography

Module: GG12610

Lecturer: Kate Edwards

Due date: 31st October 2003 (Extended due to illness)

Submission date: 17th November 2003

This work is original text by Gareth Tanswell, submitted to the UWA only for assessment purposes.

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Identify two journal articles based on empirical work that approach a subject in a contrasting manner. In each case consider the papers using the following list of questions then compare and contrast the two different approaches to the issue.

  • What were the main research questions?
  • What were the main methods of data generation?
  • What form did the data take?
  • What were the main theoretical approaches underlying the research?
  • What were the main findings and conclusions?

The articles may be selected from the following journals between 1960-present day:

  • Annals of the Association of American Geographers
  • Geographical Review
  • Area
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Environment and Planning A
  • Progress in Human Geography
  • Environment and Planning D
  • Geography Journal

Journal Articles chosen:

1. Rural geography: rural gender identity and the performance of masculinity and femininity in the countryside Little J.
Progress in Human Geography, Volume 26, Issue 5, (2002) Pages 665 -670

2. Rural geography: searching rural geographies Roche M.

Progress in Human Geography, Volume 26, Issue 6, (2002) Pages 823 - 829

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Rural geography: rural gender identity and the performance of masculinity and femininity in the countryside Little J.

What were the main research questions?

This article reviews the progress that has been made in the examination of rural gender identities and, in particular, in debates on the relationship between masculinity and the rural environment and community.

Although from the title it would be presumed that the article would be comparing men (masculinity) and women (femininity) in the countryside, to my surprise it actually discussed the relationship and contrast between heterosexual males and homosexual males in the rural ...

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