Rachel Allison's Hooking Up As A College Culture

In the article Hooking Up As A College Culture, the author Rachel Allison attempts to understand how hooking up factors into different college lifestyles. Allison along with her colleague, Barbara J. Risman, found their answer by conducting interviews at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Through these interviews, the author found that students experience the hookup scene and party culture differently because of diverse college lifestyles. Because the author focuses on only one interview, she fails to describe the other lifestyle in detail. Although Allison attempts to bring diversity to the article by mentioning how factors effect experiences, she seems to generalize her statements. In the beginning of her article, Rachel Allison mentions an article that speaks about false portrayal that hooking up has in college culture because of its low percentage of students. Although the other article focused on the percentage of people hooking up, Allison and her colleague, Barbara J. Risman

In her article, the author mentions that many of the students at the University of Illinois (UI) commute to campus. At a typical college, students that live on campus are more likely to host and attend parties at their dorms because can get back to where they are sleeping quicker, easier, and safer. Because many of the students at UI do not live on campus, their experiences of the party culture differ greatly from other colleges. Later, Rachel Allison states, “Not surprisingly, we found that where you live matters”. Although she briefly mentions this fact, it is never brought up again in her article. Throughout the article, the evidence that the author mentions are only from one college campus and is not diverse enough to make direct statements without mentioning the influences of