NEW RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN SOCIOLOGY. The sociology department is pleased to offer the Sociology Research Award and the A. Wade Smith Award
Welcome to Dartmouth! This overview covers what sociology is, and a little about our department, the sociology major, and good classes for first-year students.
The sociology department is delighted to welcome Sunmin Kim and Gregory Sharp as Assistant Professors, and Carolyn Choi as the Dean's Pre-to-Postdoctoral Dissertation Fellow in Asian American Studies.
Curated by Professor Kim Rogers and the department of sociology, this collection includes academic research, podcasts, videos, and much more. We hope that it can help inform the conversation at this critical moment and we will continue to update with new resources.
This is an important moment to revisit Professor Emily Walton's USA Today Op-Ed from 2019.
In heterosexual married couples, "if somebody needs to be home with the children, typically it's the wife who'll rearrange her work schedule," said Kristin E. Smith
"The underlying massive change is that wealth no longer needs to justify itself—it is self-justifying. I look back, and I think, that's when we gave up on being a 'we,' " writes the professor of sociology.
"In a lot of cases, gender trumps money. Our social roles are so much more powerful in decision-making than money," says Kristin Smith, a visiting associate professor of sociology at Dartmouth, in a "Forbes" story about women who are on the front lines of fighting COVID-19.
"In a lot of cases, gender trumps money," said Kristin Smith, a visiting research associate professor at Dartmouth who wrote her Ph.D dissertation on that phenomenon. "Our social roles are so much more powerful in decision-making than money."
Kimberly Rogers, speaks about using games and simulations in her sociology courses, two very analog technologies.
