Sorority Case Study Essay

My chosen subgroup to be studied was UCSB students who identify as a pledge of a Greek lettered recognized sorority on campus. The methods I used to answer the overbearing question of: How do people experience and understand the rising cost of college? was through a series of semi-structured interviews and participant observation. After conducting my research I concluded that the main factor that influences one's experience and understanding of the rising cost of college and influences their decision on whether or not to participate in sorority life is based off of the means in which they paid for college tuition (ie. through parents, loans, scholarships, etc.). If solely the individual's parents were able to pay for their child's tuition then a rise in college
In conjunction with that, I also thought it would be interesting to study a group that also pays on average $1,237 extra their first year of college, which raises the question of would new members of sororities be more or less affected by the rising cost of tuition when factoring in the added on cost of Greek life? To answer this question I conducted semi-structured interviews with pledges of a variety of UCSB sororities as well as made observations at Greek sponsored events and about who was able to pay to attend. All participants that I interviewed identify as female and are eighteen years of
In this sense a "sorority girl" could nearly be defined as an ethnicity, "a sense of connection to a group of people who we believe share a common history, culture, and sometimes ancestry, and who are distinct from others outside the