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2020 2021 Alpha Kappa Delta Inductees:
Emberlin Leja
Danielle Llewellyn
Samantha Pierre
Andrew Seymour
Ashlyn WongJaime Barta
Amanda Chau
Caroline Collins
Lia Figurelli
Ellenora Huth
Breanna Murphy
Mars Ann Murray
Nicole Perrigo
Distinction in the Major
Amanda Coors
Sydney France
Ahlam Islam
Tyra Jean
Natalia Rice
Danielle Llewellyn
Paper Award Winners100/200 Level: Brandon Byun
300/400 Level: Sydney France
Thesis/Independent Research: Natalia Rice (winner) and Ahlam Islam (honorable mention)
SOC 495, Senior Thesis - Ashlyn Wong “Comparing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder Prevalence Rates and Mental Health Outcomes in Children”
SOC335, Political Sociology - Yifeng Zhang “Century of the Atomized Self”
SOC406, Sociological Theory - Amani Moses “WEB Du Bois and George Herbert Mead: An Analysis on Code-Switching”
Brief History
Alpha Kappa Delta had its specific beginning in the fall of 1920 in the department of sociology, University of Southern California, when the departmental chairman, Dr. Emory S. Bogardus, proposed to the graduate students the formation of a society in which the students might become acquainted with each other's research projects and where they might meet informally with the whole staff of the department for suggestions and criticisms. Consequently, on November 21, 1920, a group of 14 persons composed of the faculty and graduate students of the department of sociology organized the first chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta for the purpose of interchange of ideas concerning sociological projects.
Membership in the group was limited to undergraduate and graduate students having high scholarship and to those doing research work. In fact, in the local group Phi Beta Kappa standards were approximated for membership.
In 1921, Dr. Bogardus, acting on the belief that the best students in sociology in other universities might be interested in a similar organization, sent letters to faculty members in a selected group of institutions. The University of Wisconsin was the first to respond. Northwestern University and the University of Kansas followed.
The name, Alpha Kappa Delta, was devised by Dr. Bogardus and adopted by the chapter members of the University of Southern California chapter. It represents the first letters of three Greek words: namely, anthropon (mankind), katamanthaneion (to investigate thoroughly or to conduct research). The name, therefore, implies social research for the purpose of service. An appropriate symbol of the Society, the Alpha Kappa Delta key, was designed by Dr. Melvin J. Vincent, one of the charter members of the Alpha chapter of California.
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