Literature Review #3

(1) Visual

(2) Citation

Ragsdale, Kathleen, et al. "“Liquor before beer, you're in the clear”: binge drinking and other risk behaviours among fraternity/sorority members and their non-Greek peers." Journal of Substance Use 17.4 (2012): 323-339.

(3) Summary

A few experimenters conducted research on students that attended University of Virginia (UVA) to explore what variables in the college culture attributed to students engaging in high levels of alcohol consumption. In the experiment, they wanted explore if there were any connections between gender, Greek life membership, binge drinking, other risky behavior among students that were a part of a Greek organization compared to students that were not in Greek life.

(4) Authors

Kathleen Ragsdale- She is an applied medical anthropologists. She focuses a lot of her research of exploring the health risks that young adults endure. She ais to teach young adults how to avoid risk behaviors, which can lead to STD or pregnancy. She studies young adults and high risk behavior, hence why I believe she is knowledgeable about my topic.

Jeremy R. Porter- He is professor at the University City in New York, teaching sociology and criminal justice. He has many published works about youth getting into trouble, making him a knowledgeable source.

Rahel Mathews- He is a knowledgeable source because he is a researcher at the University of Mississippi, who specializes in Social Science research focuses on public health.

These are just some authors of the paper, but as one can see there are already so many well-qualified authors already listed.

(5) Key Terms

Statistical Significance- This term is important in this article, it shows that the data set that these researchers found is that the relationship between alcohol consumption,being a member of fraternity, and violence either being done to oneself or another is not by chance. The data shows that they all have a positive correlation. 

Correlation- The relationship between two variables.

(6) Quotes

"There is a statistical significance in that female binge drinkers that are in a sorority are definitely more likely to engage in risky behavior that resulted in them becoming injured" (Ragsdale et. al.).

"Thirty two percent of the binge drinking women in sororities reported to have been injured during a night of drinking" ( Ragsdale et al.).

"The research showed that males that were in fraternities were involved in more fights than males who were not" (Ragsdale et al.).

(7) Value

This piece of research specifically help me explore my problem, because to understand one must see that there is an actual problem and why. With this research one can clearly see within the data that there is power in numbers, and a majority of people in the binge drinking fraternity member group saw there was consistently instances of violence. This research specifically links binge drinking and fraternities perfectly, giving my problem statistic back up.