Category: Undergraduate Research & Internship Opportunities – Archive

For posts from previous semesters, or posts from the current semester that are no longer recruiting, to serve as a record of all past offerings of Soc 320.

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2021: “Safer-at-Home”: How Shifting Daily Realities Affect Life Course Decisions, Aspirations, and Practices

Term: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Kelsey Wright, kwright22@wisc.edu  Topic: “Safer-at-Home”: How Shifting Daily Realities Affect Life Course Decisions, Aspirations, and Practices This project investigates how the daily lives of people have been affected due to “Safer-at-Home” orders, and whether those changes have affected (or not) respondents’ ideas and practices around romantic relationships and childbearing. …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2021: The Impact of COVID-19 on Service and Arts Workers

Term: Spring 2021 (Soc 320, Section 081) Status: Open Contact: Taylor Laemmli laemmli@wisc.edu. This position is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This project draws on semi-structured interviews with service industry and arts workers conducted during and in the aftermath of the arrival of the COVID-19 virus in the United States. I talked to workers about …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2020: Compiling Case Histories from Jail and Court Records

Term: Fall 2020 (Soc 320, Section 135) Status: Closed Contact: Please contact Prof Pamela Oliver pamela.oliver@wisc.edu if interested. It is available for 1-3 credits. Description: This project is in collaboration with Dane County community activists who are concerned about who is in the jail and people’s criminal histories that send them in and out of …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2021: Corporate Diversity & Affirmative Action Policies

Term: Spring 2021 Status: Open Working With: Jungmyung Kim, jungmyung.kim@wisc.edu  Topic: Corporate Diversity & Affirmative Action Policies This project seeks to identify the various reasonings and supporting logic for diversity and affirmative action policies revealed in public and investor relations documents of all publicly traded American corporations. Using the documents collected by the graduate project investigator, …