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Examining Sexuality and Gender in Academic and Popular Discourses: Corpus-Based Analyses

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  • Counseling as a profession has been on a journey of self-examination as CACREP approaches the release of its revised standards and the world recovers from the tumultuous few years under the shadow of the pandemic. Cultural shifts in perspective have prompted new conversations around concepts related to sexuality, racial identity, and sociocultural inequities. The two manuscripts within this dissertation take a multifaceted look at issues relevant to how the counseling field perceives sex and sexuality in academic discourse and how the profession can become more attuned and better versed in the cultural commentary and popular discourse contained within Hip Hop music. Utilizing corpus linguistic methodology, the first study examined the keywords and verbal relationships associated with counseling research on sex and sexuality compared to analogous mental health professions. Results indicate that the counseling literature has a greater propensity for associating sex and sexuality with terms that have a negative sentiment and a limited vocabulary associated with sexual identity. The second manuscript used machine learning technology to explore the topical structure of Hip Hop music and compared lyrical similarities and differences between male and female artists within the genre. The findings of this study reveal varied perspectives of male and female emcees on priorities, roles, aspirations, and experiences within the Hip Hop cultural movement. Considering the findings, the researcher hopes to highlight the ways that counseling, research, and social justice advocacy efforts can better understand and address the needs of populations that have been marginalized due to sexual, gender, social, economic, and racial inequities.
  • Keywords: Sex, Hip Hop, Corpus linguistics, Counseling
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