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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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Jason Houle, discusses the dynamics of debt in young adulthood.
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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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Guest speaker, Professor Christopher Wildeman from Yale University, speaks in a Health Policy Workshop about how child maltreatment and foster care placement affect 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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