Microculture Observation

My hypothesis about fraternity life is now focused on discovering whether philanthropic activities are just another social event or if they actually have an individual desire to help others. To test this, I attended a party thrown by one of the fraternities and observed how the brothers acted at this clearly social event. Even with numerous other guests at their fraternity house, they still seemed to cluster together in small groups. No matter where they traveled through the house or what groups of other people they were talking to, there was always at least one other brother with each one. The fact that they stick together even when there are so many other people around them, especially girls, shows how close they have become through their brotherhood. The guys were also divided by pledge classes for the most part; even though they were clearly friends with the rest of the fraternity, the bond shown with their pledge brothers seemed much stronger. They all clearly acted like the hosts of the party as well; they walked around and talked to all the different people, distributed drinks, acted as the DJ, and led any other activities that took place. In addition, a main goal of many of the brothers seemed to be to meet as many "hot" girls as possible. I could see them conversing to each other about multiple girls that they wanted to talk to.