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Everybody Eats: Experiences in Food Production and Consumption in the Brazos Valley
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| Project Leader: | Andrew McNeely amcneely@tamu.edu Sociology |
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Dr. Sarah Gatson, Ph.D.
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Meeting Times:
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TBD |
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Team Size:
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7 (Team Full)
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| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Team members will be trained in qualitative and and ethnographic methodology including: interview techniques, transcription, and coding, ethnographic observation, and field notes documentation. Topics of instruction will include sociology of religion, sociology of culture, sociology of race and ethnicity Team members will also have the opportunity to participate in the Undergraduate Research Symposium research poster session
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Team Needs:
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Motivated, inquiring minds a must. Any liberal-arts major and classification can apply for the team. Preference given to upper-level social/behavioral sciences. Lengthy interviews, participant-observation tasks, and team meetings will require team members to have flexible schedules.
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Description:
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Brazos County has a significantly higher percentage of its population that is food insecure than the average TX county. In addition, Brazos County is also home to a significantly high number of religious congregations. Since the spring of 2017, an ongoing participant observation project has investigated the religiously affiliated food pantries in the county. Now, we will expand our inquiry out to the religious congregations themselves, conducting qualitative interviews with key personnel at as many religious congregations as possible. Our goal will be to assess and document the perceived relationship between religion and food insecurity in Brazos County.
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