Montemurro, Bloom, and Madell (2003)

 

1.  What type of approach do the authors of the study use?
2.  Most of the research on male strip clubs and male strip shows treats female patrons as similar and focuses on what?
3.  What did Erickson and Tewskbury (2000) study of male patrons of female strip bars find regarding the race of most patrons, how they came into the bar, and how they interacted with others? 
4.  Why did they conduct their observation on Thursdays?
5.  What percentage of patrons were racial minorities?
6.  Of what social class were the majority of the women?
7.  In what central activities of the club did the researchers not participate?
8.  What did Goffman argue about individuals’ presentations of self?
9.  How are regulars defined?
10.  Why were regulars likely to be motivated to come to the club?
11.  For what other reason did regulars seem to come to the club?
12.  For what two types of parties were party girls likely to be at the club? What percentage of the crowd were party girls? 
13.  Why did virgins often go to the club?
14.  According to Lofland (1969) we sometimes engage in deviant behavior for what reasons?
15.  Girlfriends used the show and dancers as a way to what?
16.  For women patrons in the sexualized atmosphere of the strip club, the experience was most about what?
17.  How do they define ringleaders?
18.  How are sideliners described?
19. Was the voyeuristic aspect of the show of primary or secondary focus to these women?