Draft 1: Social Status: Hierarchy (Dominance and Submission) in Greek Life

This topic submitted by James Tate and Adrianne Mikosz (tateja@muohio.edu,yurztruly@aol.com) at 12:44 pm on 2/1/01. Additions were last made on Saturday, February 24, 2001. Section: Myers.

Our project topic is Social Status: Hierarchy (Dominance and Submission) in Greek Life. For our project we will be doing a survey to determine people?s perceived need for hierarchy, social order, leadership, etc. We will look at our data from a perspective of evolutionary psychology to determine the reasons behind the results we find.
Some questions that we will be pursuing will be:
Do people feel a need for a concrete or subtle social ordering (hierarchy)?
If so, do people perceive themselves and each other as dominant or submissive?
What qualities do we use to determine our hierarchy?
What evolutionary evidence is available to support the presence or absence of hierarchy in our society?
We will attempt to focus our inquisition on fraternity and sorority life at Miami University and flesh out the social order found within, as well as the reasons behind it. As Greek life is very prevalent at Miami, our project should have relevance and available areas of research.


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