Senior Seminars
2000

Guided by Professor Catherine Berheide, the SO 375 Senior Seminar in Sociology is a practicum in which students draw on their acquired knowledge of sociology to develop independent research projects. Here are students and their projects in Fall 2000's Sociology Senior Seminar.

Jennifer Ballard
Sport: A Catalyst for Violence?*

 

Rachel Burrows
Faces of Child Care: The Use of Informal Networks among Low-income Individuals*

 

Cassandra Corley
Environmental Racism: Are You a Target*

 

Lori Delgado
To Be or Not to Be: Reactions to Affirmative Policies in Education for Minorities*

 

Kevin Drakulich
Greed in the 80s, Guilt in the 90s? Trends in Private Materialism and Public Interest as Life Goals Among Youth in the 1990s

 

Jordan Durham
Third Party Voting in a Two Party System: Perot and the Presidency

 

Ryan Fairley
Could A Million Politicians Be Wrong? Debts' Impact on Public Spending

 

Reagan Flyg
Gang Girls and Guns*

 

Jonathan Foss
Express Yourself; Don't Repress Yourself: Men's Emotional Boundaries and the Crisis of Masculinity*

 

Noah Ingber
Xenophobia in Post WWII Countries: Does the Hate Still Linger?

 

Andrea Kellogg
Why We Choose the Right to Choose: An Examination of Primary Socialization Factors as They Affect Adult Views toward Abortion

 

Elizabeth Kitlas
Employed Mothers: Does Family Life Suffer?*

 

Alder Kovaric
Mothering and National Trends in Volunteering*

 

Hans Kunisch
Chipping Away at the Mystery of Voter Turnout: Testing Stochastic Learning Model

 

Megan Murphy
Doing Homophobia: The Relationship between Gender and Homophobia

 

Timon Perry
The Global Community: A Study of the Internet and Its Users as a Community

 

Barbara Purcell
The Continuing Gentrification of the Lower East Side

 

Rachel Sayko
Injection Drug Use in Hartford: The Relationship between Previous Arrests for Carrying Drug Paraphernalia and the Participation in Syringe Exchange Program*

 

Kerry Shearman
To Spank or Not to Spank: Determinants in Peoples' Attitudes towards Spanking*

 

Ayanna Singleton
An Old Problem in a New Economy: A Study of the Effects of a Skill-Based Economy on the Economic Well Being of African Americans

 

Joelle Smith
Not Just Vermont: Public Opinion on the Civil Rights of Homosexuals*

 

Ian Urquhart
Educational Inequality: Does It Really Affect Your Future?

*Presented at the 2001 Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Boston.