hat they will not be the only athletes or Greek organization wish will be interview therefore making them at ease about others finding out there true identity in this study. I will also have to be careful in approaching students because they may have had emotional experiences with other drinking and themselves. So I plan to be careful around people who seem threatened by questions that I ask and be open to hear there concerns around alcohol abuse.Theory With the Greek society many of the "pledges" or new member candidates, change and slightly conform to the fraternity or sorority, to better explain this situation is a process called "Progressive Conformity""Externally, these dominant features influence the degree to which individuals are attracted or repelled by an environment, and internally, they select and shape the behavior of participants in a coercive manner. Over time, human aggregated tend to homogenize, reinforce, and accentuate their own dominant characteristics" (Strange, 1986).Since athletics are very similar in socialization patterns to Greek organization we could also apply the Progressive Conformity to the athletes. As I approach my study I have two theories:1) I believe that the Greeks will have a higher percentage of alcohol consumption than the athletes.2) The Maine universities will have a higher amount of alcohol consumption than in the national survey.SampleI will select 500 random athletes and 500 random Greeks in each university in Maine. Then I will call each sorority and fraternity at each University, and ask if I may conduct an in-depth interview with 3 of his or her active members, one of them being their president. Then by speaking with president and asking to observe in one of there "social gathering" or parties. I conduct a participant-observation twice in every university, whether it is a dorm, house or Greek social gathering. I will note at this time, I will be using two other researchers who are in gr...
