The work of Jadyn Petterson-Rae '15, a Sociology modified major with WGSS, is featured at the Dartmouth Black Family Visual Arts Center.
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Sociology major Emmanuel Blankson's thesis research was about the identity construction of second-generation black immigrants in college, namely Dartmouth.
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Sociology major Andrew Longhi writes on social justice for "The Guardian."
[more]In Sociologyy 36, Sociology of the Family, students conduct primary research to gain insight into their parents’ experiences of balancing work and family. Students interview their parents, transcribe their stories, and analyze them. It is often hard to truly understand the sacrifices our parents made to raise children, the tradeoffs they experienced as they made decisions about whether to stay at home or return to work after the birth of a child, and the ways that these decisions affected their parenting, marriages, and relationships with their children.
[more]My thesis, entitled “Hookups, Romantic Relationships, and Companionate Love at Dartmouth” is an exploratory, qualitative study of intimacy norms and meaning-making among college students. My research addresses the question, “What are the ways in which undergraduates conceptualize intimate relationships in an environment where hookups are featured in some campus subcultures?” Although some aspects of intimate relationships have actually remained stable over time, relationships on college campuses today also take several different forms than in the past.
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