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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
Xiuqi 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
Olivia 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
Jack 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
Hyunjoon 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
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!
Irma 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
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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Walker Kahn, Postdoctoral Researcher, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy University at Buffalo Law School
Faculty Bookshelf
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.
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.
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Develops a performance theory of Red Guard factional violence and traces the ritual process of the transformation of a political generation over a period of forty years.
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.
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