The topic I chose to research came easily to me considering I interact with people in sororities for a large portion of each day. Initially I thought that following someone in a fraternity would be interesting to me but convinced myself out of it in fear of being creepy. I want to research this not only because it is familiar, but because I hope it will teach me something about myself and the people I am constantly around. This way, I do not need to find a person to follow around, or sit in one spot and stare at an animal, but I can just observe the people I am with in a new light. The places I have chosen to further investigate are Adelphi Commons, which are the complexes the sororities live in, the "fratio" outside of the MU, classrooms, dorms, and the SRC fields. Those places are generally the common grounds for gathering with each other, and will therefore provide the most information for me to gather.
One of my sources will be a set of a few interviews with fellow members, along with interviews with girls in another panhellenic sorority here at Arizona State. This will provide a broader view to my paper instead of me focusing on one specific sorority. For my scholarly article, I am deciding between two, or I may just use both, but the first is titled: Bound by a Mighty Vow: Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920, and provides the background information of sorority life needed to understand where the values and principles come from. This article is about three pages long. The other is one is by Ashley Evans and is titled: Inside the "Sorority Girl" and gives more of a cultural look at the women in sororities and how they interact with each other day to day, which perfectly back up my paper's intentions. It is a few pages long. The book I am using is titled: The origin of the Greek Alphabet, by William Nickerson Bates. It is 863 pages long, but is conveniently split up into 15 sections of narrowed down topics. Since the entirety of Greek life is based around Greek letters, I found that this book would be useful in writing about more history.
If i need more information for my research, I have already begun finding websites to help fill in any gaps I may have. Hopefully, though, it wont be too difficult for me considering this project won't require me to go too out of my way for information. I hope to learn something in the process, as well as teach my peers something about sorority life rather than the stereotypes that constantly surround it.
While looking through the class list, I was immediately attracted to your topic since it is similar to mine. In my project I am talking about the different stereotypes one has for sororities and how most of them are not applicable. I believe that the locations that you have chosen for this assignment are perfect. Since sororities live in Adelphi, you could combine Adelphi and their dorms since they are very similar. Also inside Adelphi are chapter rooms and study rooms, which you could talk about too. Hopefully this information and suggestions are able to help you along with your project.
ReplyDeleteHey, I think you have a really good topic here and it should be pretty straight forward to create a criteria based on places sororities hang out. Also I like how you put the way that you aren't just evaluating sorority life because you're familiar with it but because you can get a new look at it. It's like the same thing with me doing student-athletes, I mean it will be a lot easier since I don't have much time to stalk someone but I also want to find out more about what makes one. Since I don't know much about sorority life, one thing I can suggest is just using a lot of supporting evidence for your criteria. I think it will be great though!
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