Senior Seminars
1998
Guided by
Professor Catherine Berheide, the
Sociology Senior Seminar is a practicum in which students draw on their acquired knowledge of sociology to develop independent research projects. Eleven seminar students presented research findings from their projects at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Boston in March. Here are students and their projects in Fall 1998's Sociology Senior Seminar, with an asterisk indicating presentation at the 1999 Eastern Sociological Society meetings.
- Brian Beltran
 - The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Religiosity
Samantha Benson - Happiness: It's All in Your Head*
Staci Boucher - Changing Tradition: An Analysis of the Cohabitation Phenomenon*
Amy Doft - Families in the United States: Not Always as Clear-Cut as Black and White
Jessica Dorrance - Women, Men, and Involvement in Volunteer Work*
Michelle Flaherty - Who You Know May Affect Your Chances of Contracting the HIV/AIDS Virus
Alicia Gottfried - What Type of School is Best for Your Child?*
 Andrew Herman - Institutionalized Inequality and How It Is Perpetuated in the United States*
Caroline Iskrant Family Income and Maternal Level of Education: Do They Influence Infants' Birthweight? Shaneeka Johnson - Racial Attitudes in Comparison to Region
Shuk Yin Lee - The Nature of Drug Use Among Pregnant Women Who Gave Live Birth at Hospitals of Washington, DC*
Cari Anne Liberman - Conservatism vs. Liberalism: A Closer Look at How Women Formulate Their Political Views
Kate McGill - Dyn-O-Mite: A Study of Socioeconomic Status of Black Americans and Its Effect on Black Television Sitcoms, 1951-1995*
David Nothnagle - Income Inequality Between Men and Women
Lani Radack - Maternal Illness, Social Isolation, and Child Neglect*
Juliet P. Scarpa - Room to Breathe: An Analysis of Population Density and Crime*
Allison Washburn - Public Opinion and the Resurgence of Chain Gangs*
Rebecca Wise - A Mother's Work is Never Done . . . Or Is It?
- *Presented at at the 1999 Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Boston.
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