Sociology and Anthropology

Community Projects

Making Class Visible

Always at the forefront of encouraging discussion about sensitive topics, Mount Holyoke has created a forum where dialogue can flourish about privilege, classism, and identity. This website is an accessible vehicle to promote a deeper understanding of the complexity of socioeconomic diversity and interactions on the Mount Holyoke College campus.

Remembering South Hadley High School: 1936-1956

This site is composed primarily of audio clips from interviews with 36 graduates of South Hadley High school between the years 1936 and 1956 conducted in spring 2007 by students in Anthr 275: Doing Ethnography.

Sociology 224
Practicing Sociology: Field Methods for Sociology Majors

This course in archival and field research methods uses a sociological lens to magnify issues in research design for nonquantitative data. In this community-based learning experience, students will use resources from their own "community" to describe and contextualize the idea of a community. There will be hands-on experience with primary documents from the Mount Holyoke College Archives, as well as interview material that students will collect, transcribe, and analyze themselves.