Senior Seminars
1999

Guided in 1999 by Professor Rory McVeigh, the Sociology Senior Seminar is a practicum in which students draw on their acquired knowledge of sociology to develop independent research projects. Six seminar students presented research findings from their projects at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Baltimore in March. Here are students and their projects in Fall 1999's Sociology Senior Seminar, with an asterisk indicating presentation at the 2000 Eastern Sociological Society meetings.

Andrew Barnes
Effects of Specific Relations Within A Person's Network on Happiness

 

Erik Benson
The Lack of Alternatives Past High School and its Effect on Individual's Completion of High School

 

Alison Better
The Effects of Gender on Home Computer Usage in America*

 

Stacey Brownstein
Childhood Victims of Abuse and their Subsequent Juvenile Criminal Behavior: The Cycle of Violence Continues

 

Carrie DiBicarro
The Effects of Parental Divorce on Young Adults' Attitudes Toward Marriage and Family Formation*

 

Timothy Drisko
Two Competing Models of Delinquency: Test of Explanatory Ability in Rural and Urban Populations

 

Gabriela Garaycoa
The Influence of Television on Children

 

Page Lessy
Mother Absence During Childhood and Women's Gender Role Attitudes

 

Jessica Good
Sibling Relations in Divorced Families*

 

David Kosowsky
Effects of Athleticism on Participation in Violent and Risky Activity

 

Mel Lahan
Gender Discrimination in Prison Sentencing*

 

Wendy Lewis
Urbanization and its Weakening Effects on Religiously Based Attitudes on Homosexuality

 

Ted Metzger
The Impact of Education on Level of Concern for the Environment: Pollution from Cars and Industry

 

David Kovall
A Study on the Relationship Between Religiousity and Sexual Activity

 

Megan Przygoda
A Study of Sex Education's Effect on High School Dropout Rates Emily RogovinEffect of Parents' Level of Education on Individual Academic Achievement

 

Chris Sipples
College Attendance and Participation in High School Athletics: Is the Relationship the Same for Males and Females?

Sarah Strauss
Traditional Versus Non-Traditional Gender Role Attitudes: Experiencing Women in the Public Realm and Gender Role Attitudes

 

Sarah Winslow
Flexibility, Autonomy, and Spillover Theory: Exploring the Determinants of Contributions to Household Labor*

 

Jonathan Woodring
Multinational Corporate Penetration and Third World Human Development*

*Presented at the 2000 Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Baltimore.