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Market Basket Controversy (New Hampshire Union Leader)

Associate Professor Marc Dixon analyzes the Demoulas Market Basket supermarket situation which is not union-motivated.
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"Gender in Twentieth-Century Children's Books"

In a Spring 2014 article about female leadership in the trilogy Hunger Games, the American Sociological Association's Contexts magazine featured a paper co-authored by Assistant Professor Janice McCabe.
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"Student Debt and Black Homeowners" (The Wall Street Journal)

Assistant Professor Jason Houle has co-authored a research paper showing a relationship between student loan debt and homeownership for those under age 30.
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"Foreclosures Drive Up Suicide Rate"

Assistant Professor Jason Houle has co-authored a study, appearing in the American Journal of Public Health, showing a correlation between foreclosure and suicide rates.
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Fall Sociology Courses with a New Twist

Click on this pane to read more about "Social Movements," "The Political Power of Ideas," and "Sport and Democratization in the Ancient and Modern Worlds."
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Student Research: Andrew Longhi ’14

Sociology major Andrew Longhi writes on social justice for "The Guardian."
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"The National Origins of Policy Ideas"

Professor John Campbell has published this book with co-author Ove Pedersen, Professor of Comparative Political Economy at the Copenhagen Business School.
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"Surveillance in the Age of Big Data"

Dartmouth presents a series of four speakers on government surveillance and personal privacy.
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"Mental Health, Suicide and the Foreclosure Crisis"

Assistant Professor Jason Houle speaks in a Health Policy Workshop about his research concerning the relationship between rising foreclosure rates, and the population mental health status and suicide rates.
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Considering Declaring as a Sociology Major?

Recent Sociology alumni are engaged in a wide range of undertakings from consulting to finance to social work to teaching.
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Recent Publications

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The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany and Denmark

John L. Campbell, Ove K. Pedersen

Princeton University Press
Age and Its Effect on the Experience and Management of Emotion

Kathryn J. Lively

Advances in Group Processes
I Didn't Recognize It as a Bad Experience until I was Much Older: Age, Experience, & Workers' Perceptions of Sexual Harassment

Amy Blackstone, Jason Houle, Christopher Uggen

Sociological Spectrum: Mid-South Sociological Association
Neighborhoods and Mental Health: Exploring Ethnic Density, Poverty, and Social Cohesion among Asian Americans and Latinos

Seunghye Hong, Wei Zhang, Emily Walton

Social Science and Medicine

Events

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Aug 02

5:00PM
New York Theatre Workshop: "Toast" written and performed by Lemon Andersen
Hopkins Center Bentley Theater

TOAST weaves characters from black oral narratives into a gripping story about a group of inmates fighting to keep their minds free amidst the 1971 Attica Prison riots.
Aug 02

8:00PM
New York Theatre Workshop: "Dot" by Colman Domingo, directed by Sean San Jose
Hopkins Center Bentley Theater

DOT is a darkly comedic piece about woman who, suffering from early stages of dementia, plans to kill herself—posing challenges for her adult children.
Aug 09

8:00PM
New York Theatre Workshop: "Forever" written and performed by Dael Orlandersmith
Hopkins Center Bentley Theater

Directed by Neel Keller. In a historic Paris cemetery, the playwright examines artistic heroes and her own family history of abuse and frustration—as well as poetry, art & music
Aug 16

5:00PM
New York Theatre Workshop: "The Shaking Earth" by Mashuq Deen, dir by Josh Hecht
Hopkins Center Bentley Theater

An Indian household is rocked when a closeted Hindu husband and his estranged wife both secretly offer refuge to Sikh neighbors, while a brother helps coordinate riots outside.
Aug 16

8:00PM
New York Theatre Workshop: "Hadestown" by Anais Mitchell, dir. by Rachel Chavkin
Hopkins Center Bentley Theater

Part love story, part political dreamscape, Hadestown is a folk rock opera based on the Greek myth of Orpheus & Eurydice set in a post-apocalyptic Depression-era company town.