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Many undergraduates in the department of sociology collaborate with faculty on independent research projects and as research assistants. Below is a brief description of a few of the research projects that our recent and current students have been involved with. Many of these projects received financial supportfrom the Danziger Fund, which supports researchprojects that engage and involve undergraduates.
Listed below are some recent Honors Theses.
"Resumes, Cover Letters and Facebook Profiles: A Study on the Use of Facebook in the Corporate Hiring Process"
"Hookups, Romantic Relationships, and Companionate Love at Dartmouth"
"Social Norms and Organizational Policy: Using a Three-Dimensional Stakeholder Analysis to Understand Fraternity Norms about Sexual Assault"
"Selling the Game: The Economic Sociology of Advertising in Baseball"
"More Black Ivy Leaguers, But There's a 'Kind'? Oppositional Culture Theory and Group Attachment of High-Achieving Black Students"
"Deciphering Dominican Dreams: Social Mobility Among Dominican Immigrant Professionals"
"Race and Gender in Newspaper Coverage of Sexually Transmitted Diseases"
"The Future's in the Dirt: Local Food, Community and Embeddedness in Hardwick, Vermont"
"A Model for Public Schools: An Analysis of Long Term Academic Enrichment Programs and How They Shape Black Students to Succeed in College"
"The Business of America is Business: Corporate America's Reassertion of Political and Economic Power and the Divergent Responses of American Labor Unions"
"How Do Black and White Biracial College Students Identify? Exploring the Influencing Factors in the Development and Changes in Racial Self-identification"
"Threat or Opportunity? Immigrant Workers and Building Trades Unions, the Case of Portland, Oregon"
"Upper-Class Black Identity and Social Distancing"
"Socioeconomic Status and Hispanic Identification in Part-Hispanic, Multiracial Adolescents: A Microsociological Approach"
"Human Capabilities: Effects of Neighborhood Trust and Food Insecurity on Emotions"
"The Post-Election Violence and Social Networks of University Students in Nairobi, Kenya"
"A Matter of Taste: The State of Class in Burlington, Vermont, Through the City Market"
"From Interests to Identities: Mapuche Social Movement Organizations and Indigenous Autonomy in Chile"
"Organics in the Mainstream: The Creation of an Industry or Social Movement Success?"