Sorority Rituals - Reflections On Rites of ... - Mari Ann Callais

Index Frequency Percentage
Ethnicity
Asian American 1 2
Caucasian 45 88
Multi Ethnic 2 4
Native American 1 2
Other
Hispanic 1 2
Spanish 1 2
82
* N = 51
Table 2 contains the demographic profile of the study participants by age and ethnicity.
The 51 participants all joined their sororities between 1998 and 2001. Nine (18%)
participants pledged in 1998, twenty-three (45%) in 1999, twelve (23%) in 2000, and seven
(14%) in 2001. No first year members participated in the interviews. Some of the sorority women
had participated in deferred formal sorority recruitment in the spring of 2001, but they designated
their status in their chapters as second year. Of the 51 participants, the majority of them were in
their second and third years in the chapters with twenty-one (41%) in their second year,
seventeen (33%) in their third year, and thirteen (26%) in their fourth year.
In the description of year currently in school, the data was evenly distributed, with the
exception of freshmen, who were not included as participants due to the timing of the interview
process. One question not asked on the demographic information was during what year in school
did they join their chapters. For this reason, the years currently in school do not match the years
in the chapters. Some of the women joined their sororities during their junior and senior years in