Sociology

Rape Culture & Frat Culture

The undergraduate experience is an important one for many young people in America and in the world. When young people go off to college, they have opportunities to have many experiences as well as experience the great array of college/university traditions. Unfortunately, there are a number of unsavory undergraduate traditions that many American youth experience. The subject of this paper will be upon one of the more pejorative and horrific traditions of rape and the sustainment of rape culture on undergraduate campuses, with specific focus of rape culture in the Greek (fraternity) systems. Joining a fraternity, known by a shorter moniker among young people, "frats," is a high point of many young men. Fraternities throw parties, participate in community service, and are one of the most likely places for an undergraduate woman to be raped and otherwise humiliated, assaulted, or disrespected. The paper will...
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