Presenter(s): Isabel Acker—Sociology
Co-Presenter(s): Sofia Chicote, McKenna Porter, Spencer Thoene
Faculty Mentor(s): Melissa Baese-Berk
Session 2: Oregon Trails
The goal of our research project is to answer the question of how labels affect people’s lives and their level of self-confidence . More specifically, we are focusing on college-age students at the University of Oregon for our study . We hope to find data that shows how the labels people choose for themselves, and that others choose for them, have an effect on the level of confidence college-age people have . We want to see if the way that other people perceive individuals has an effect on the self-confidence of the individual . We also hope to determine if there is a difference in the level of confidence people have when they are describing themselves, or when they are describing the labels other people have given them . To accurately conduct this, we’re asking open-ended questions to keep it inclusive . First, we will ask permission to use their answers in our research . We will ask about their name, gender, ethnicity . . .etc, in an open-ended format . We will ask them to rate their self-confidence in different social groups, and when they are by themselves, and see how those differ . We want to ask questions that are detailed and more towards a response describing someone’s affiliations . We hope to be able to compare the way in which your self-identifications coexist and relate to the stereotypes and affiliations that the world would describe us as . We then would like to find the correlation between the two and directly connect that to our self-confidence .