"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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Sophomores: Major-Declaration Deadline
Sophomores choosing to declare as a Sociology major should complete the process with the Department no later than April 1, 2014.
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"It's Not Your Grandparents' Labor Union" (VPR)
Associate Professor Marc Dixon participates in a discussion of national trends in labor unions, in conjunction with a look at how Vermont workers fit into that picture.
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"Out of the Nest and into the Red"
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Jason Houle, discusses the dynamics of debt in young adulthood.
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Social Problems Related to the Innocent in Prison, Racism, and Mass Incarceration
Students in Prof McCabe’s Social Problems class learned first-hand about social problems related to these issues through a powerful guest lecture by Fernando Bermudez, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 18 years in prison, & Reyna Ramirez ’10 (New England Innocence Project).
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"Cumulative risks of confirmed maltreatment & foster care placement for Am. children"
Guest speaker, Professor Christopher Wildeman from Yale University, speaks in a Health Policy Workshop about how child maltreatment and foster care placement affect children.
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Houle Study: Which Students Have the Most College Loan Debt (VPR)
VPR interviews Assistant Professor Jason Houle about his recent research showing that lower-middle-income students carry more debt load than students from either of the other economic groups.
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How We Work: Five Years Later (NHPR)
Kristin Smith, a Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology, speaks about changes in work-related issues: NH daycare, women's and men's wages, and womens' roles as breadwinners.
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Recent Publications
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"Coding In-Depth Semi-Structured Interviews: Problems of Unitization and Inter-Coder Reliability and Agreement."
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Age and Its Effect on the Experience and Management of Emotion
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Weight Gain and Depression Among US Young Women During the Transition to Adulthood
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Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders among Asian Americans: Nativity, Gender, and Sociodemographic Correlates
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