SouthEastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium

Proceedings from the

27th Annual Southeastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium 2009

Co-sponsored by Morehouse College and Emory University

Departments of Sociology

Morehouse College, February 27-28, 2009

• Proceedings (in PDF)
• 2009 Award Winning Papers
  • First Place and $100: Focusing on Success: Analysis of High-Academic Achieving African American Males - Matthew Piagatt, Morehouse College
  • Second Place and $75: The Soft Material Significance of Race: An Examination of White Stereotypes - Kasey Henricks, Austin Peay State
  • Third Place and $50: Contact Culture and Conflict Linguistics between U.S. and Caribbean Students on a Historically Black College Campus - Tonja Khabir, Fisk University

   

• PowerPoint Presentations
  • COMMUNITIES
• “Issues of Authority in a Grassroots Organization”
  Leslie Elmore, Rhodes College
• “Factors Contributing to Redevelopment of a Neighborhood: A Case Study of Tomorrow’s Hope”
  Jonique Green, Fisk University
• “How Gentrification is Viewed by the Indigenous Residents of East Austin”
  Larry Graham, Morehouse College
• “Social Welfare and Its Misconfiguration in the African American Community”
  Shaunita Felder, Bethune-Cookman University
• “From Foster Care to Adoption”
  Christopher Lynn-Logue, Morehouse College
• CRIME AND DEVIANCE
  • “Social Control, Social Structure and Social Learning, and General Strain Theories: Evaluating Delinquent Peer Influences and the Efficacy of Specified Intervening Processes”
    Bradley Quarles, Morehouse College
  • “Social Suicide: An Exploration of Marx’s and Durkheim’s Interpretations of Social Structural Explanations for Suicide”
    Julie Hudson, Augusta State University
  • "The Motives behind Mothers Who Kill”
    Rachael Roberts, Augusta State University
  • “Fear of Crime Among College Students”
    Alyssa Williams, Fisk University
• ETHNIC CONTACT AND CULTURAL CHANGE
  • “Contact Culture and Conflict Linguistics Between U.S. and Caribbean Students on a
    Historically Black College Campus”
    Tonja Khabir, Fisk University
  • ‘From Egusi Soup to Hamburgers’: A Phenomenological Analysis of Gender, Ethnic and Racial Identity Formation In Nigerian Students At Spelman College
    Chider Agu, Spelman College
  • A Sociological Analysis of the Lives of a Group of Refugee Children Living in the Urban South”
    Stephanie Hansard, Agnes Scott College
  • “Why do Indians study medicine? A Review of Indian Cultural Values That Influence Career Choice in Indian Adolescents”
    Sahithi Boggavarapu Orzolek, Virginia Commonwealth University
• GENDER
  • “Media Portrayals of Women”
    Sharrelle Armstrong, Fisk University
  • “Not so ‘Silent’ Partners: Exploring Women’s Contributions to U.S. Civil Rights Movement”
    Brittney Little, Agnes Scott College
  • “Identifying Emotional Differences by Gender Using Social Feedback and Physiological Emotion Measures”
    Janece Maze, Miles College
  • “Conceptualizing Janet Chafetz’s book Masculine, Feminine, or Human? and the Women’s Liberation Movement in a Marxian Framework”
    Lauren Seaborn, Augusta State University
• GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT
  • “Uchi and Soto in Cyberspace: How Japanese Sociology Manifests in a Virtual World”
    Nicole Meanor, Agnes Scott College
  • “The UNDP and Legitimate Global Investment Processes Sustainable Human Development, Capacity Building, and the Millennium Development Goals”
    Aaron Dickerson, Morehouse College
  • “Ending the Silence: Searching for Social Justice in Sudan”
    Lauren Seaborn, Augusta State University
  • “Nicaragua’s ‘Great Transformation’: Regulation and Liberalization 1979-1995”
    Carrie Freshour, Georgia Institute of Technology
• ISSUES OF RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER
  • “Are You Too White?”
    Shaunte Randall, Miles College
  • “The Soft Material Significance of Race: An Examination of White Stereotypes”
    Kasey Henricks, Austin Peay State University
  • “Asian Blepharoplasty: The Clash between Ethnic/Cultural Identity and Western Culture, and Ideas of Feminine Attractiveness”
    Andrene Foster, Agnes Scott College
  • “On the Gay Question: Queer Theory and Marxism”
    Tiara Chapman, Augusta State University
• MUSIC AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
  • The Most Complex and Powerful Work of American Art to Deal with the Vietnam War: The Retrospective Consecration of Jimi Hendrix’s 'Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock
    Holly del Junco, Emory University
  • “Institutional Racism in the Music Industry: The Transformation of Hip-Hop and its Effect on Society”
    Jacob Martin, Wake Forest University
  • “Rap Music Attitudes and Perceptions Among African-American College Students”
    Jacobi Simmons, Fisk University
• SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE
  • “Being a ‘Budgetarian’: Shoppers, Stores, and Organic Foods”
    Carrie Freshour, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • “Love Me and My Tattoos: A Qualitative Study of Modification Motivation in Tattoo Culture”
    Quintin Harrell, Morehouse College
  • “Gender Differences in Self-Presentation on Facebook”
    Lendel Marshall, Morehouse College
  • “Applying Durkheim to Host Country Advantage in the Summer Olympic Games”
    Angela Degroat, Oglethorpe University
• SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
  • “I Can Achieve Academically Too! An Analysis of High-Academic Achieving African American Males”
    Matthew Pigatt, Morehouse College
  • “Synthesizing Two Educational Traditions: Pedagogical Discourse in Light of Political Correctness”
    Rami Abdoch, Rhodes College
  • “Declining Test Scores in DeKalb County Public Schools: Evaluating the Need for, and Potential Role of, Charter Schools”
    Craig Belinfanti, Morehouse College
  • “Does School Type Affect Student Success?”
    Tashaye Byrdsong, Fisk University