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Joyce Kim, PhD Candidate in Soc & Higher Education, has won the Graduate Student paper award from the Altruism, Morality, & Social Solidarity section of ASA
Joyce Kim, PhD Candidate in Soc & Higher Education, has won the Graduate Student pXiuqi Yang's, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Demography, paper, "Duration and Timing of Parental Out-migration and Early Childhood Development in China," has been awarded an honorable mention by the ASA Section on Asian and Asian America Graduate Student
Xiuqi Yang's, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Demography, paper, "Duration and Timing of Parental Out-migration and Early Childhood Development in ChinOlivia Hu's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, "Let’s Talk About Race, Baby: How Interracial and Interethnic Relationships Influence East Asian Women’s Racial Ideologies" was awarded an honorable mention from ASA 2024
Olivia Hu's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, "Let’s Talk About RacJack Thornton's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, “‘Are We the Help?’ Frontline Fundraising as Elite Service Work", received the honorable mention for the Student Paper Award for the ASA's 2024 Section on Consumers and Consumption
Jack Thornton's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, “‘Are We the Help?’ FrontlineHyunjoon Park, Jere Behrman, Irma Elo, Xi Song, & Paula Fomby, project, "Pathways to Education Development & Their Consequences: Finland, Korea, US", was awarded a 2024 Penn Global Research
Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology,Ben Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology's new book, "Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality", was reviewed in the New York Times & Published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review!
Ben Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology's new book, "Behind theIrma Elo, Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor of Sociology, and Iliana Kohler, Practice Associate Professor in Sociology & Associate Director of the Populations Studies Center, awarded a 2024 Penn Global grant
Irma Elo, Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor of Sociology, and
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.
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Vatican II
A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history.
In Defense of Disciplines
Interdisciplinarity and Specialization in the Research University
In Defense of Disciplines presents a fresh and daring analysis of the argument surrounding interdisciplinarity.
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life, With an Update a Decade Later
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
By: Lance Freeman
Temple University Press
What would you do?
Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death.
