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It's a quandary for researchers, colleges and parents alike: More college students are living in alcohol-free housing and fewer are joining fraternities and sororities, yet binge drinking rates have not dropped during the past eight years. In this research proposal, on fraternities and sororities drinking habits, I will explore history, current trends and related literature on the topic.
My research will try to explore whether heavy drinking tapers off for most of people after college or not. Drinking among most members of these social organizations is almost totally driven by what students believe their friends think and not by a need to drink. One strength of my research will be that it will utilize a prospective design and follow students over time.
My study will also try to determine whether the well-established relation between fraternity/sorority (Greek) membership and heavy alcohol use persists beyond the college years and whether some common third variables might account for the relation between Greek status and heavy drinking.
Now, however, contrary to popular belief, students who drink a lot as part of fraternity and sorority life do not necessarily keep drinking at that level after they have finished college, a unique new study shows. Many "Greek" graduates appear to moderate their drinking once they leave campus.
Belonging to and participating in the social organizations, which tend to accept heavy drinking as normal, is what promotes the behavior, not a predisposition to drinking, the study shows. Other research has demonstrated that changing surroundings and social roles associated with work, marriage and parenthood tends to promote varying degrees of abstinence.
Despite alcohol awareness days, "dry" dormitories, and alcohol-free fraternities and sororities, just as many college students engaged in binge drinking in 2001 as did in 1993.....................
