NEED HELP WITH CLASS PROJECT

[pelauren]

Hi everyone!

My name is Paige and I go to University of Houston. I am not in a sorority, but I am doing a project on sorority culture for my health communications class, and I was wondering if any sorority members would be willing to fill out a short ANONYMOUS survey for me?

Not sure where to post this survey, but if someone could point me in the right direction I could post it as soon as I know where, and people could email me their answers.

Thanks in advance!

[Nanners52674]

Originally Posted by pelauren

Hi everyone!

My name is Paige and I go to University of Houston. I am not in a sorority, but I am doing a project on sorority culture for my health communications class, and I was wondering if any sorority members would be willing to fill out a short ANONYMOUS survey for me?

Not sure where to post this survey, but if someone could point me in the right direction I could post it as soon as I know where, and people could email me their answers.

Thanks in advance!

I might, What's the project about, how do sororities play into it? Also how did you come to choose this topic?

[33girl]

Why don't you talk with actual sorority members on your campus, rather than people on a website who for all you know could be a bunch of fakes?

Ohhh, I see. You need this to be ANONYMOUS. So I'm guessing you're going to ask questions that are very offensive in terms of sexual, social and intellectual stereotypes.

[DrPhil]

@ 33girl

OP: Is the survey on surveymonkey or some equivalent?

Also, OP: If you haven't already given this survey to the sorority members on your campus, you should do so. Their survey responses can also be anonymous if they can complete and return the survey with no identifiers on their submission.

[pelauren]

We have asked a couple of sororities on campus and have gotten a few responses back, but we'd like to have a wider range of data to work with, and given our time restraints, we thought this might be a good option to try.

The questions are mostly health related and how being in a sorority affects one's personal health, either positively or negatively. And yes ONE question does ask about sexual health, but I don't think it's in any way offensive, and it's certainly not to perpetuate any stereotypes.

We chose sororities because we thought it would be an interesting perspective as a sub-culture of the overall "college culture."

And I suppose I would post the survey in a separate thread along with my email address and anyone who wanted to complete it could send it to me.

It's 10 questions, 5 are in depth and 5 are short personal questions.

[Nanners52674]

Originally Posted by pelauren

We have asked a couple of sororities on campus and have gotten a few responses back, but we'd like to have a wider range of data to work with, and given our time restraints, we thought this might be a good option to try.

The questions are mostly health related and how being in a sorority affects one's personal health, either positively or negatively. And yes ONE question does ask about sexual health, but I don't think it's in any way offensive, and it's certainly not to perpetuate any stereotypes.

We chose sororities because we thought it would be an interesting perspective as a sub-culture of the overall "college culture."

And I suppose I would post the survey in a separate thread along with my email address and anyone who wanted to complete it could send it to me.

It's 10 questions, 5 are in depth and 5 are short personal questions.

When you say personal health, what exactly are you looking at. I'm interested, but it's still a very broad description.

[pelauren]

We ask questions about personal diet, exercise, stress levels, sexual health and how being in a sorority might affect these aspects of life. Some have said it doesn't at all, other's say it has. We just want to get as much perspective as possible, but our paper is due in 3 weeks.

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by pelauren

Hi everyone!

. . . but I am doing a project on sorority culture for my health communications class, and I was wondering if any sorority members would be willing to fill out a short ANONYMOUS survey for me?
. . .
Thanks in advance!

Hate to point it out, but how on earth can you be sure that any respondents from an internet site are actual members of a sorority?
I suppose you could always divide the responses you collect into a couple of batches. One would be for responses from known sorority members (like ones on your own campus). The other could be presented / labeled as coming from internet responders who may or may not be sorority members.

[maxz]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Why don't you talk with actual sorority members on your campus, rather than people on a website who for all you know could be a bunch of fakes?

Ohhh, I see. You need this to be ANONYMOUS. So I'm guessing you're going to ask questions that are very offensive in terms of sexual, social and intellectual stereotypes.

This escalated extremely, albeit predictably, quickly ...

[maxz]

Originally Posted by exlurker

Hate to point it out, but how on earth can you be sure that any respondents from an internet site are actual members of a sorority?
I suppose you could always divide the responses you collect into a couple of batches. One would be for responses from known sorority members (like ones on your own campus). The other could be presented / labeled as coming from internet responders who may or may not be sorority members.

For an undergraduate class project without (I'm certain) a research grant to build a survey panel, I'm sure a sample set of "persons who self-identify as a member of a university sorority" is probably just fine. I doubt she's planning on submitting this to JAMA for chrissakes.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by pelauren

We ask questions about personal diet, exercise, stress levels, sexual health and how being in a sorority might affect these aspects of life. Some have said it doesn't at all, other's say it has. We just want to get as much perspective as possible, but our paper is due in 3 weeks.

Are you looking for college students or alumnae? I think that for many of us we're no longer immersed in the "subculture."