Mane Read 2024: Community

This study examines different aspects of students’ college life to articulate their perceptions of campus community. The findings indicate that students’ sense of community is closely associated with their feelings of being cared about, treated in a caring way, valued as an individual and accepted as a part of community and the quality social life on campus.

"Efforts to segregate music in the United States — to market music by European American artists to European Americans and to market music by African American artists to African Americans — were defied by African American composers and performers in a variety of ways to get their music to a wide audience."

Sara Kathleen Henry reports some interesting findings from her study on the intersection between students’ use of social media, social and psychological well-being, and sense of community.

Virtual-worlds research is a dynamic and growing interdisciplinary area in the social sciences and humanities. Sociological theory can play an important role in how virtual worlds are conceptualized and studied.