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Seth W. Davenport, Tyrease “TJ” James, and Dr. Jonathan G. Marti

Northland College sociology class meets at cemetery to collect data.

Sociology and Social Justice

Sociology and social justice will give you access to core issues and to fundamental truths about society and culture and the tools for understanding these issues. The faculty emphasizes statistics, field research methods, and sociological concepts in their classes every day. Some classes involve group projects, panel presentations, and outreach…

Fence memorial at Pulse

What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us

Understanding Gun Violence

…come to the project through an interest in whiteness and masculinity, I knew very little about how academics understood firearms. Research in law and political science was extremely useful in explaining the significance of the gun lobby and the Second Amendment, but much of the existing social science work was…

Northland College student EmmaMarie Hamond

EmmaMarie Hammond’s Three Lessons for Making Change

Citizen's Climate Lobby Goes to Washington DC

…pitch her ideas to lawmakers in Washington DC this past June. She and fellow student Seth Bayliss, who is studying sustainable community development with a minor in sociology and social justice, alumnus Mike Pesko ‘73, and four other CCL representatives joined 1,300 citizens to lobby Congress for market-based solutions to…