Sociological Insight: The Coming Apart of a Dorm Society

The topic I choose to do my term project on was looking at college as a subculture. The definition of subculture is a cultural group within a large culture. These groups often have similar beliefs or interests. Everybody who attends college and be put into a category of a subculture.

Sororities and fraternities are becoming more influential on college campuses and among the professional world. Over 730 schools across the United States have the Greek life system and there are several different fraternities and sororities on each college campus. Many Americans have extremely different opinions about Greek life as a whole. Although many say it is all about partying, there are many pros and cons to joining Greek life. Greek life can be a very good experience in college, it is whatever people make it.

In 2013, Penn State saw a 1.6% increase in student enrollment. This year, Penn State’s University Park gained 46,184 new incoming students. Our research looks into the incoming freshmen class and the options they are given in order to choose a roommate.

Being a first generation college student is something that I hold very close to my heart, growing up watching my parents struggle is what drives me to work hard and do better everyday. When I envision my future, I see a strong independent woman who works hard to give back to the community and the people that helped shape the person she is.

Greek life plays a major role in colleges and universities all across the United States. Greek life allows men and women to join an organization and create a long lasting bond, as brothers or sisters, which they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. College campuses explore and boast about the positive impacts that Greek life has on students as well as the community around them. However, even with fraternities and sororities being on college campuses for decades, few people outside the Greek life community have discovered the real, enduring process that it takes to become a "brother" or "sister". Throughout my research, I will be focusing on the negative effects that fraternities and sororities pose upon pledges. This includes hazing

College In the 1920 was very different. In the 1920s the College felt very luxurious to students from less affluent homes. There was a lot of food and there was a large staff of maids who worked very long hours. They not only dealt with housework and serving at table, but also made the student’s beds and cleaned their shoes. Indeed, much time at the General Meetings of undergraduates was spent discussing the complexities and responsibilities of various forms of social behavior. In 1927 the President of the J.C.R regularly received complaints that 'students walked bareheaded about the town', and had to request that hats should be worn in public places.

An Old Dominion University recently had problems with the Sigma Nu Frat house hanging signs outside their house with extremely inappropriate sexually suggestive and harassing signs to new freshman female students and their families. The college responds by suspending the Frat house students. The stakeholders are the university, frat students, new students, their families, and the community around them. The university has duties to their students and their families to provide a safe place to learn and a duty to themselves to bring in more students and get more money. They have the right to educate their students and show a bit of virtue and utilitarianism when the suspend the frat house, providing mortal excellence while providing what is

Along with the excitement and anticipation that come with heading off to college, freshmen often find questions of belonging lurking in the background: Am I going to make friends? Are people going to respect me? Will I fit in?

Some may wonder what are the struggles that a typical college student has to go through. In this interview, Maritza Marin explains the struggles she has to go through in her everyday life. She is currently attending Riverside Community College trying to become a nurse so she can help people after she graduates. She currently has a job and she doesn't let that get in the way of her road to being a nurse. Maritza is the type of person who doesn't let one mistake get in her way or bring her down she just keeps going until she gets it right.

As a college professor, Edmunson is a firsthand witness of the culture shift occurring on college campuses, where the modern day pioneers of the technological era strive to achieve greatness. The urge to experience life to the fullest drives young adults to new heights of multitasking in order to experience life to the utmost possibility. As a result, Edmunson notices his students stretching themselves six different ways at once, the thought of dedicating their full attention to one specific task proving to be boarder line foreign.

Since the early 1990s, substance-free housing has become an increasingly popular option for campuses across the nation. Substance-free housing has been implemented in universities and colleges in hopes of reducing rates of binge drinking among college students. Binge drinking can be defined as, “men drinking five or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting and for women four or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting.” (Feldman 271). Even though many know college binge drinking is a problem in our country, many are shocked when they hear that, “more than 75% of college students have consumed at least one alcoholic drink in the last 30 days. More than 40% say they’ve had 5 or more drinks with in the past 2 weeks, and some 16% drink 16 or more drinks per week. Nearly half of all male college students who drink are binge drinkers, and forty-one percent of female college students are binge drinkers” (Feldman 270). Statistics prove that college binge drinking is a problem to not only the students drinking but the ones that are staying sober, since “two-thirds of light drinkers reported having their sleep or studies disturbed by drunken students. Around a third had been insulted or humiliated, and 25% of women said a drunken classmate had made unwanted sexual advances” (Wechsler et al. 199). College binge drinking has many consequences associated with it such as poor academic performance, injury, assault, sexual abuse, property damage and drunk driving (Willenbring 238). The problem of

According to a report from a National Center for Education Statistics, in 2013, only 59 percent of the students in the institute took 6 years to gain their bachelor’s degree. Interesting news. Currently attending a Community College now and I wanted to graduate within a four-year range. Although college will be challenging, I will be successful by listening to advice from experts, using effective strategies, and understanding the value of college discussion.

Parents often struggle to find a balance between allowing their children to become self-reliant, while still supervising them. Most of the time kids end up either way protecting their child far too much or allow them to just run around freely doing whatever they please. These two opposite ends of the spectrum can both lead to destruction. Focusing more from a college standpoint when kids come into college after living in a sheltered home everything is new to them and it all comes crashing down at once, creating tremendous amounts of stress and anxiety. On the opposite end of the spectrum allowing children to do whatever they please can create an unruly individual that might not even make it to college. In the case of JBU most students come

In Nathan’s article, she keeps her principal focus on how foreign students interact with American students and the distinctive type of relationships that they build. It is quite strange to some of the foreign student’s that Nathan has interviewed about how non-committed American students are to the foreign students because American 's students do not socialize as much, and tends to spend more time alone. Furthermore, they will make small talk rather than being close friends or let it evolve into more. At that point, Nathan turns her center towards the difference between a relationship and a friendship between American and foreign students. She also discusses with different foreign students with different background and how they interact with their American roommates, and the relationship that they bond. In addition, American student’s family is a distinct subject from school but for international students, it is something naturally integrated into their social lives, which is why they care so much about their parents (Nathan 73). Furthermore, she discusses how many foreign students make comments about how different students look and the lack of attention that they give their professor compared to in their home country. Nevertheless, the social life and making companions in American can be quite troublesome for any foreign students. However, once you become acquainted with American students and get to be

As I graduated high school, I thought college would just be yet another four years of high school, and I was wrong. College opens many new doors in a young man or woman’s life. There are new responsibilities and pressures that you will have to deal with, and with more freedom these responsibilities and pressures can be difficult to handle. College has changed a great deal over the years and these changes, such as more freedoms, make college a much more challenging experience. You need to start preparing for college now by making yourself more responsible and having more self-control. Although you think college is merely partying with easy classes on the side, I have experienced pressures and work loads that make the experience challenging