Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Sociology and Anthropology Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
In addition to this digital archive, physical copies of past Sociology and Anthropology comps are available for browsing in the Sociology and Anthropology office (Leighton Hall 226).
Submissions from 2012
Elise Paige Rasmussen, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Revitalizing a Socially Disorganized Neighborhood: Is Social Organization Possible?
Daniel John Read, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Between Tigers and People: The Political Ecology of Protectionist Conservation in the Melghat Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India
Hiroki Sato, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2012, Japanese Pacifism as a Complex Multidimensional Notion: Analysis of Japanese Pacifism and Article 9 using Theories of War and Peace
Hannah Casey Trees, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN), Religion (RELG) 2012, The Paradox of Existential Theology: A Critical Analysis of Søren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich
Submissions from 2011
Samantha Anne Ellerbeck, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, From Italy to Holland: the Mother's Spectrum
Kiera Kelly Jaffin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Voices on Facebook: Privacy, Connectivity and Presentation of the Self
Jonathan Gustin Jenkins, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Rapping for the World : Reggaeton Rising
Emily Nicklawskyk Kelly, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Cultivating Community in a Post-Industrial World: The Role of Community in Community Supported Agriculture
Elly Kuhlman, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Beyond Homework Help: An examination of the role of youth and programming in Faribault
Margaret Kathleen Kutcher, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, What is the effect of gender on judging? A Meta-synthesis of Inconclusive Empirical Evidence
Inara Makhmudova, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Benefits of Immigration: Juggling American and Soviet Identities
Kathryn Laurel Markle, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Art and Artifact: Museum Presentation of African Objects and African Cultures
Mary C. Paulette, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Changing the Channel: Televison's Effects on Educational Attitudes in Catatao, Honduras
Sarah Margaret Prather, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Awakening Youth to Le Developpement: Formally Educated Togolese and their Home Associations
Lyssa Alexandra Searcy, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Welcomed as "New" Minnesotans or Framed as Responsible "Others"?: Exploring the Media Framing of Somali Immigrant Health and Wellness in Minnesota between 1996 and 2010
Iosif Sorokin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, From the Scroll to the National Language: Linguistic Ideology in the Hebrew Revival
Kelly Marie Thomas, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, Holy Representations of Themes and Cultural Ideas, Batman!: A close examination of representations of themes and characters in the Batman franchise from 1939 to the present day
Shakita Shavonne Thomas, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2011, From Access to Success: Social Capital and Posse Scholars
Submissions from 2010
Emily Yuko Cousins, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Culture and Legal Change: An Examination of Japan's New Criminal Justice System
Rebecca Wintringham Dougherty, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Buying the Miracle:Reproductive Tourism and Commercial Surrogacy in India
Kaitlin Elizabeth Forsberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, H1N1 in the Carleton Community: Blame, Morality, and Joking on Campus
Kaitlin Meredith Justin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Fuertes y Adelante: Music and National Crisis in 1970's Chile
Anne Frances O'Gara, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, New Family Transitions: Considering Dissolution in a New Era of Family Formation
Joseph Andrew Sigrin, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Distant Relations: The Formation of the Sephardic Imagined Community
Michael Aaron Stevens, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, Only Way You Gonna Take It Is if I'm Dead and Cold: Masculinity and Sexual Assault in Minnesota Prisons
Anne Elizabeth Triest, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2010, The Way that Can Be Told: Examining Popular Western Books on Daoism
Submissions from 2009
Lauren Blacik, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, We are them and then is now: the unique presentation of the past at U.S. World Heritage Sites
Emily Brosius, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, "You are normal" : negotiating personhood within an adult day program for older adults with dementia
Sasha Houston Brown, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Reproductive conquest and the seizure of life : a biopolitical analysis of government sponsored sterilization among native American women
Andrea Duron, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, I like boys, I like sports : gender performance among female athletes
Marissa Fischer, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Egbe aya efutoo mbia (The hawk never gets lost in its journey to other lands) : brain drain, transnationalism, and the migration of the Nigerian Igbo
Christa Frintner, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Gender imbalance of fields despite equal opportunity : gender and higher education decision-making processes at Carleton College
Charlotte Goodrich, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Beyond nation-state paradigms : globalization and classic sociological theory
Hope Harvey, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Insisting on integration : Jefferson County, Kentucky
Nora Mahlberg, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, A demand to be made whole : a critical examination of environmental justice movement theory and uranium contamination on the Navajo Reservation
Michelle Margoles, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The "Saint Louis-ism" of Mame Coumba Bang : a gendered perspective of changing perceptions and observances of a river goddess in Saint Louis, Senegal
Caitlin McMurtry, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The relationship of housing type, isolation, and hopelessness to involvement in risk behaviors among adolescents in low income neighborhoods
Carolyn Morales, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Taking the time to care : Hallmark cards and the commodification of time
Sabrina M. Peterson, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, The Islamist movement in Saudi Arabia : an interaction of structure and culture
Don Smith, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Students for sale : how YOU can take our money
Nathan Stephens, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Come be citizens with the rest of us : Ecuadorian selves and indigenous others in Ecuadorian constitutional law
Ariel VandeVoorde, Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) 2009, Transforming education for social change : student experiences grounding academic civic engagement in social theory
