1811 research outputs found
Sort by
A Campus Divided: An Analysis of the Development and Practice of Social Hierarchies and Boundaries at a Private Liberal Arts College
No full textThis project explores the social organization Founding College. Using the interviews of 22 Founding College students I explain the divisions and social boundaries within the college\u27s social landscape. I was able to determine that group affiliation is an important component of a student\u27s identity at Founding College. In terms of social divisions, student interviews reveal a macro social division between the “lightside” and “darkside” sphere of campus. Within each sphere small groups act as microstructures. Social groups at Founding college are categorized as either darkside or lightside activities. Through analysis of interviews with Founding College students it becomes clear that social groups create and maintain boundaries that are rooted in racial and socioeconomic identity. These boundaries led to distinct social experiences for members of different groups. While lightside and darkside was the most prominent division in student interviews, it was largely an aesthetic division, due to the similarities in racial and socioeconomic status on both sides. The most impermeable and isolating boundary is between underrepresented students, such as POC students and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and the rest of the student population. This finding demonstrates the replication of social inequalities within a college campus
Ein kleiner Abriss von denen Irr- und Abwegen, derer von Gott gerufenen Seelen
No full textBrother Ezechiel Sangmeister (1723-1784) lived at Conrad Beissel’s Ephrata Cloister, a mystical Pietist community founded in 1732 on the banks of Pennsylvania’s Cocalico Creek. This broadside is in keeping with the Germanic tradition of the Geistlicher Irrgarten, or spiritual labyrinth, a theme popular with Pennsylvania German printers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Copies of it could be purchased bound with Sangmeister’s Mystische Theologie, or purchased separately from printer Joseph Bauman. Hamilton College’s copy was bound with David Landes’s Das Guldene A B C fur Jederman der gern mit Ehren wolt bestahn. [Ephrata, Penn.]: Gedruckt [bey Joseph Bauman] für David Landes, 1825
The Changing Face of Shaker Life: How Pictorial Images in the Popular Press Reflect the Growing Acceptance of the Shakers in Nineteenth-Century America
Get PDFIn the half century between 1830 and 1880 the American public encountered the first visual representations of Shaker life. Published as newspaper and magazine illustrations or on separate sheets that were meant to be framed and displayed, these printed images document the changing ways in which Americans imagined the Shakers over the years. This essay is drawn from my book Imagining the Shakers: How the Visual Culture of Shaker Life Was Pictured in the Popular Illustrated Press of Nineteenth-Century America, published by the Richard W. Couper Press in 2019, and was presented as a talk at the Enfield Shaker Forum in 2021
Experiential Learning in Mathematics
Get PDFThe United States lags behind many other developed countries in math skills. The root of the problem lies not in mathematics itself, but in the way the United States approaches teaching math through memorization. One alternative pedagogical method to memorization is experiential learning, which is the process during which students acquire new knowledge through experience and is meant to reflect the way people learn in the real world.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/posters/1016/thumbnail.jp
Bail Reform
Get PDFThe Public Safety Assessment (PSA) to assess the likelihood of pretrial risk. Then, the information is used to decide the conditions of release, including components like bail. The factors used are related only to age and criminal history. In short, the algorithm helps judges make more informed decisions.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/posters/1007/thumbnail.jp
Not Like the Other Girls: Tomboy Narratives in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!
No full textViolent Archetypes in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher and Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season
No full text“This just isn’t my culture.”: Understanding Sexual Messages and Controlling Images in Hip Hop Through Gender and Race
No full textThis study focuses on the interpretations of sexual messages in hip hop music videos released in the 2010s based on both the artists and the listeners’ racial and gender identity. Centered at a liberal arts college in central New York, 10 participants were interviewed individually and asked (a) how they interpret sexual messages in hip hop, (b) whether there were any positive or negative consequences from having sexual messages in hip hop, and (c) if they ever felt they needed to engage in the gender performance demonstrated in hip hop music videos. Participants watched music videos by Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, and Rae Sremmurd and then shared their thoughts in response to the themes mentioned above. In doing so, participants were able to think critically about how to answer questions with specific examples. Learning from respondents’ answers, we can determine whether the idea of controlling images surrounding Black sexuality and masculinity are reproduced in hip hop music videos. From this study, we as sociologists learn how sexual messages in hip hop influence individuals to engage in gender performance based on having (or not having) a cultural connection with the genre. Mainstream hip hop can reproduce racialized and gendered controlling images through individuals who consume the music. Interpretations to the music can vary based on the individual’s race and gender as to whether they feel pressured to enact the gender performance presented in the music videos. With the association to Black culture, hip hop influences Black and Brown folks to participate in gender performances and reproduction of controlling images as most respondents in the study believe them to be the target audience of the genre; in comparison to white folks who feel disassociated to the genre due to a lack of understanding and connection to the cultural aspect of the music. The purpose of the study is to understand how race and gender impacts how an individual understands and/or reproduces controlling images through the gender performance presented in sexual messages in hip hop
The Unfortunate Shaker Cemetery at Watervliet, Ohio
No full textAfter the Watervliet Shaker community closed in 1900, all Shaker land was sold to the State of Ohio and became known as the Dayton State Farm, or simply the State Farm, a division of the Dayton State Hospital. The location of the community’s cemetery, while well known to the Shakers, was lost after they departed. By 1984 the site of the old State Farm was completely cleared of all Shaker structures., including the brick Center House, dating from 1821. Excavation work for a new Dayton Power and Light building in 1985 led to the rediscovery of the cemetery
Using the Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations, and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee to Recover Forgotten Shaker History: a Case in Point from Enfield, Connecticut
No full textThe time between the opening of the Testimony in May 1780 and the gathering of New Lebanon in 1787 is the least documented period of Shaker history. A source that could help place this period in a more balanced perspective is the Testimonies of the Life, Character, Revelations, and Doctrines of Mother Ann Lee, first published in 1816. Intended by Mother Lucy Wright (1760–1821) for Shaker eyes only, it was almost three quarters of a century later that the work was publicly printed for a wider distribution. Taking the well-known stories and setting them aside, there remain scores of strands, that when investigated, reveal the Shaker world as Mother Ann and the First Parents knew it. Exploring these helps complete the Shaker historical narrative. When considering Enfield, Connecticut, for example, two such “strands” readily come to mind. When explored they show a history that has been effectively forgotten, but nonetheless can offer many important details of early Shaker history