The Indiana University of PA President’s Commission on the Status of Women and Women’s and Gender Studies Department is proud to host the 2017 PASSHE Women’s Consortium Annual Conference at Indiana University of PA on September 29-30, 2017. Our conference theme is “We Are Stronger Together: Intersectionality in a Diverse World.” Please spread the word…
Month: April 2017
The Sociological Art World of Korean Pop Music (KPop)
By Danielle Rosenberger This paper was for the Robert Cook Honor’s College Core Unit C, which was taught be Dr. Vaccaro. It is a class where the main focus was on the critical thinking question “how do we define Art?” through the lens of Sociology. The class explored different genres of art and attempted to to…
The Sociology Behind YouTube as an Art World
By Megan Palmer The Robert E. Cook Honors College at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania is a community of scholars who debate philosophical questions. Each semester is divided into two units, each focusing on a different core question. For Unit C, the third unit, I was given the opportunity to answer, “How do we understand…
Sociology and The Art World of Photography
By Elizabeth Ambrose This semester I had the opportunity to study with Dr. Christian Vaccaro, a passionate associate professor for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Sociology program, in my Honors College Core class for Unit C. In his class, we focused on the sociology of different art worlds such as music, fashion, street art, and…
The Sociological Art World of Victoria Secret’s Fashion Show
By Ekaterina Minchenkova Hello, my name is Ekaterina Minchenkova, I am an Honors College student, and one of my units there was Sociology. Basically, in that unit we were talking about art and our main question was “How do we understand art?”. From sociological perspective we defined art as a complex structure of art collaborators-people…
Syrian Refugees: The Myth and Reality
I advocate for a form policy thinking that focuses on durable, strategic, and long-term solutions on refugee policy that serves American interest in the long-term rather than immediately.
Engaged Sociology 