Week 5

I think I have a pretty good plan to finish my project.  I have done some interviews already, which have been helpful, and I have collected some information from the internet as well.  I will also be collecting some fitness and bodybuilding magazines because I feel that the two will be quite different as far as advertisements and advice found within the articles of the two different types of magazines.  I have also started getting into a couple of chat rooms and talking to bodybuilders or just men and women who go to the gym often.  I ask them many of the same interview questions that I have done in person, but I also see where they take the conversation.  Many of the men I have already talked to display a sort of pride and maybe some slight vanity in the way they see themselves.  I have had many interesting conversations that have been both informative and have helped me get to know more about the attitudes of this gym subculture.  I also still need to look up some scholarly sources on psychology, which is the “deeper” subject within my subculture, whereas fitness and staying healthy is the “apparent” subject.  My only question is how much scholarly research you want in our final project versus how much personal interaction you want to see with our chosen subcultures.