News
New and First Penn Global Seminar for Sociology Department: Dr. Iliana Kohler's new course, "Global Aging—Challenges and Opportunities" - Travel to Malawi, coming in Spring 2025!
Letícia Marteleto, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Sociology, was interviewed by Penn Today regarding her research as a Principle Investigator for Decode Zika and Covid (DZC) and her recent publications surrounding her research
Information on Penn's Environmental Innovation Initiatives Course Inventory for Registration
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Associate Professor of Sociology, was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) in Sociology grant for her project on, "The Care Work System as a Fundamental Cause of Economic Inequalities"
Elena van Stee, PhD candidate in Sociology, new co-host of Podcast: Moral Matters
W.E.B. Du Bois, Erving Goffman, Dorothy Swaine Thomas, and E. Digby Baltzell all broke new sociological ground while working at the University of Pennsylvania. As one of the oldest departments of sociology in the country, Penn Sociology continues its tradition of excellence with twenty-plus award-winning, distinguished faculty recognized for their scholarly achievements and leadership in the field.
Upcoming Events
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Faculty Panel for Visiting Day
Colloquium
Professors in Sociology: Letícia Marteleto, Wendy Roth, Tukufu Zuberi
Education and Inequality Works in Progress: Manuel Schechtl, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center
Workshop
"Understanding wealth-based social exclusion: Wealth Insufficiency Beyond Income Buffering"
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Simone Ispa-Landa, Associate Professor, Sociology and Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Colloquium
"Status, Power, and Peers: The Construction of Elite Femininities in Historically White Greek Life"
Faculty Bookshelf
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Race, Class, and Residence in Los Angeles
Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Ph.D.
Sociologist Camille Zubrinsky Charles explores how modern racial attitudes shape and are shaped by the places in which people live.
Planning and Control of Land Development
By: Lance Freeman, With Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press.
Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials
By: Lance Freeman Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
By: Lance Freeman
Temple University Press
The Power of the Internet in China
Citizen Activism Online
A pioneering and award-winning study of the innovative forms and multi-institutional dynamics of internet activism in China.
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders.
Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials
By: Lance Freeman, Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press