In his thesis, "More Black Ivy Leaguers, but There's a 'Kind'? Oppositional Culture Theory and Group Attachment in High-Achieving Black Students", Georgino considered the observation that more Black students are enrolling in elite colleges and universities, and Black immigrants and the children of Black immigrants have largely bolstered the increasing numbers.
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Jaclyn Wypler's senior thesis, The Future’s In the Dirt: Local Food, Community and Embeddedness in Hardwick, VT, examined an emerging local food system in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont using the theory of embeddedness.
[more]In an article on the Student Research Symposium, sponsored by the President's Office, The Dartmouth highlighted the work of sociology major Emi Weed '13: The Dartmouth states: Emi Weed '13, a sociology major, examined the nature of hookups, romantic relationships and companionate love at Dartmouth at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Defining hookups as any casual sexual interaction and citing data that only 35 percent of college students hook up, Weed concluded that Dartmouth students prefer companionate love, such as friendships, to passion and sex.
[more]In her senior honors thesis, completed under the guidance of Professor John Campbell, Orli Kleiner '12 conducted an economic sociological analysis of advertisements of Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees games throughout the twentieth century. Using qualitative and quantitative methods and a compiled collection of primary sources that did not previously exist, Orli analyzed and compared the history and evolution of baseball advertisements to that of consumer goods, observing parallels and unique differences.
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Sociologist Jonathan Cole is the next speaker in the “Leading Voices in Higher Education” series. He will discuss his book, The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected.
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