Senior Seminars
2001

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 2001's Sociology Senior Seminar.

Caren Arbeit
More Than Grades: Factors That Influence Educational Aspirations*

 

Dan Bianchi
Differences in Returns to Academic Achievement Among Second Generation Mexican-Americans According to the Size of Locality*

 

Michelle Blocklin
Therapeutic Volunteering: A Look At The Relationship Between Anxiety and Volunteering Among Women*

 

Mara Campione
Residential Segregation: Attitudes Towards Living with Blacks

 

Alex Dayton
Education and Happiness: A Statistical Analysis

 

Sarah Feingold
As Seen on TV: Prescription Drug Advertising and Its Influence on Society

Lexi Frank
The Effect of Social Stratification on Happiness*

 

Adrianna Gluck
The Damaging Long Terms Effects of Child Abuse: The Relationship between Physical Child Abuse and Number of Adult Criminal Charges

 

Jenny Hall
Getting Older…and Happier

Liz Holinger
What Effects Our Overall Happiness?

 

Jessica Hubbard
Is It the Parents' Fault? The Effect of Family Structure on Bar Attendance

 

Kate Keelty
Christian Fundamentalism And The Environment: A Dangerous Mix?*

 

Nicole Klein
Keeping Kids Out of Trouble: A Look at the Impact of Prevention Programs on Re-Offence in Juvenile Delinquents

 

Thomsin Levin
The Wall Between: The Influence of Education and Race on Racial Attitudes

 

John Martin
Just Do It? Attitudes Toward Suicide

 

Matthew Meskill
Family Structure's Affect on Educational Attainment: Rethinking the Patriarchal Nuclear Family

 

Kate O'Rourke
For Better of Worse: A Look at the Culture of Divorce on the Future of the Family

 

Toby Rappaport
Drop the Rock: Racial Sentencing Disparity Among Drug Offenders

 

Valerie Savidis
Who Gets the Big Bucks: The Effects of Birth Order on Income

 

Julia Shanbrom
Health Status And Inequality*

 

Micaela Shapiro-Shellaby
Female Solidarity? Women's Attitudes Toward Welfare and the Implications On Female Solidarity

 

Jennifer Smith
Class-Based Analysis of Educational Attainment

 

Maria Sosa
The Quest for Happiness: A Look at the Relationship between Married Life and Happiness

 

Mary Sprayregen
Examining Offender Social Ties: A Theory Of Successful Community Justice*

 

Randall Steketee
Public Attitudes on Immigration: Do We Want the 'Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free'?

 

Sarah Stern
WWJD: The Relationship Between Religion And Attitudes Toward Poverty*

 

Lauren Sweeney
Do Unto Others… A Study of the Impact of Trust in Individuals on Volunteer Work Amanda Thompson, Race and Perceptions of the Death Penalty

 

Matt Ufford
Keepin' The Peace: How Race and Age Affect Concerns About Law Enforcement

 

Melissa Warren
What it Boils Down to: How the Economy Melts into American Attitudes toward Immigrant Assimilation

 

Tamara Wilder
Poverty And Quality Education: Can They Coexist?*

*Presented at the 2002 Eastern Sociological Society meetings in Boston.