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Haverford College
Department of Sociology

Curriculum: Senior Thesis

Selected Thesis projects conducted between 2003 and 2007

Senior thesis projects conducted during the 2007-2008 academic year

  • "Structural Differentiation within Athletics" by Deirdre Din
  • "Failures to Sacrifice:  The Isolation of the United States Imperialist Effort from the American Public" by Julianne Eubank
  • "Using Creative Umbrellas: Identity Group Conflict, Miscommunication & the Need for an Intellectual Community  at Bryn Mawr College" by Shayna Israel
  • "Advocating a Reiterative Drug Crackdown: Philadelphia’s Operation Safe Streets, Open Air Drug Markets, and a Policy Alternative" by Johann A. Koehler
  • "The Road to Higher Education: A New Look at the Formation of Educational Aspirations" by Alexandra McCoy
  • "A Contemporary Analysis of Cultural Expression As Seen Through Clothing, Women, Identity and the Structure that Wears Them All: Fashion" by Halley McWilliam
  • "The Maxsa Model: A New Organizational Paradigm" by Jesse Moore
  • "Deviance and Piracy: A Strain Theory Account of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing" by Alexander Simon Moser
  • "‘Roid Rage’ for the Information Age: A Study on Internet based Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Subculture and Users" by Ray Panek
  • "Charitable Giving of Alumni: Social Embeddedness, Activities, and Giving" by Kelly Petersen
  • "Cognitive Dissonance:  On categorization, rationalization, and the place of breaking points in the performance narrative" by Sonia Williams

Selected Senior thesis projects conducted between 2003 and 2007

  • "Labor relations in the NBA: The Analysis of Labor Conflicts between Owners, Players and Management from 1998-2006" by Steven Raymond Brown, Jr
  • "Blueprints and bars: An Exploration into the Effects of Architecture upon Rehabilitation in Correctional Institutions" by Margot Elton
  • "Structures, the Construction of Meaning, and Subsequent Strategies in Online Poker" by Shawn Ezrapour
  • "A Prototype Analysis of Missing: Centrality, Valence, and Correlates of the Experience of iInterpersonal Separation" by Remy Fiorentino
  • "Social class and its impact on maternal awareness of child sexual abuse in Pakistan" by Nadia Rafi Khan
  • "The role of education as a cultural construct in the United States and France" by Amy Newshel
  • "The North Korean Conundrum and the Deficiencies of Western-Rational Social Theory" by Nick Stephens