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When you take courses in Dartmouth's Sociology Department, you'll be introduced to a unique way of asking questions, examining problems, and viewing the world. Sociology is really about learning analytical thinking in the best tradition of the liberal arts.

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The HOP "The Team Reconstructing" Pre-Show Panel Discussion with Deborah King

4/2/2026

The HOP The TEAM Reconstructing will have a pre-show Panel discussion on Thursday April 2, @ 6p, Top of the HOP. Members of the TEAM are...
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Quoted: Misagh Parsa in The Attitude With Arnie Arnesen podcast

3/6/2026

"The vast majority of Iranians don’t want the same old thing. They want democracy and freedom,” the professor emeritus of sociology, who...
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ASA Recognizes Faculty for Accomplishments

3/3/2026

Footnotes A Magazine of the American Sociological Association Winter 2026 edition Accomplishments: Shaonta' E. Allen, Dartmouth College...

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Dissent of the saffronized subaltern.

Smriti Upadhyay

"Collective Past as a Community-building Initiative: Teaching Asian American Studies through the History of Student Activism."

Sunmin Kim and Daniel Lin

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“First Phone Call is Usually Family”: Informal Borrowing Among Low-Income Debtors.”

Chanda, Trisha, Jason Houle, Lisa Klein-Vogel, Rachel Dwyer, and Lonnie Berger.

"Subordination to Women, Anger, and Endorsement of Violence Against Women: A Test of General Strain Theory."

Maria N. Scaptura, Kaitlin Boyle, Kimberly B. Rogers

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