Honors Students And Tattoos: Article Analysis

Dr. Lauren Dundes and Antonia Francis in the journal article, “Inking and Thinking: Honors Students and Tattoos” (2016), suggest that, for Honor students, tattoos are an act of defiance in reference to the expectations placed on them. Dundes and Francis support their claims by presenting evidence from a study the authors conducted. The author’s purpose is to explain why there is a substantial difference in the number of honors versus non-honors students who get tattoos in order to prove that honor students’ decisions to get tattoos are less likely to be based on outside influences. Although some Honors students get tattoos an act of defiance, they still contemplate getting tattoos for up to one year (Dundes and Francis 219). Whereas non-honors students tend to succumb to peer pressure and societal influences. As stated in the article “decisions are more consistent with their friends’ and parents’ actions” (Dundes and Francis 223). The author writes in a formal tone for a well-educated audience of the sociology background. This is shown when the author tells the audience that convenience sampling is used in the study without explaining what it is (Dundes and …show more content…
Both of the articles are Social Science articles written on the topic of college students and tattoos. One article, “Inking and Thinking: Honors Students and Tattoos” is a Sociology piece because it focuses on the two large groups who have tattoos: honor students and non-honor students. The other article, “To Ink or Not to Ink: The Meaning of Tattoos Among College Students” places an emphasis on the reasoning behind why students have tattoos or why they do not. Because this article discusses both groups of people-those with and without tattoos as well as the purposes behind tattoos, it is a psychology