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Liz Jacobs published an article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on migration policy and international skill flows, and another paper in Higher Education on the educational attainment of international students.
Shani Adia Evans Accepts Position with Rice University
Elena van Stee Receives Laura Bassi Scholarship
Pilar Gonalons-Pons published a new article "Exit, voice and loyalty in the family: findings from a basic income experiment" in Socio-Economic Review.
Guobin Yang published a new article “Online Lockdown Diaries as Endurance Art” in AI & Society.
Damon Centola Book Publication, January 2021
Tukufu Zuberi Capital Riot Podcast, January 2021
Elena van Stee Receives Turner-Schulman Graduate Research Fellowship
Ross Koppel Named Distinguished Fellow by American College of Informatics
Dorothy Roberts was a panelist for a discussion on Penn SAS's In These Times on an episode entitled, Exacerbating the Health Care Divide.
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
***CANCELLED*** Education & Inequality Works-in-Progress: Manuel S. Gonzalez Canche
animating Authorities: Natural Language Processing and the Development of National Markets
Education & Inequality: Gilberto Q. Conchas, The Wayne K. and Anita Woolfolk Hoy Endowed Professor of Education, Penn State University
Workshop
The Chicana/o/x Dream Hope, Resistance, and Educational Success
Education & Inequality Works-in-Progress: Wensong Shen, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, and Emily Hannum
Effect Pathways of Informal Family Separation on Children’s Outcomes: Paternal Labor Migration and Long-term Educational Attainment of Left-behind Children in Rural China (discussion of paper revisions)
Faculty Bookshelf
Fast Food, Fast Talk
Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Life
Leidner's fascinating report from the frontlines of two major American corporations uncovers the methods and consequences of regulating workers' language, looks, attitudes, ideas, and demeanor.
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.
On the Make
The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
David Grazian’s riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons.
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.
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
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.