  We identify 175 Seyfert galaxies from the Southern Sky Redshift Survey -
SSRS2. We use the entire SSRS2 catalog to investigate the correlation between
the presence of AGN with host environment. The AGN phenomenon is more strongly
correlated with the internal host properties, than with the external
environment. In particular, we find that Seyferts reside in more luminous
galaxies, and are twice as frequent in barred galaxies and systems showing sign
of advanced merger condition, when compared to a control sample.
