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Samuel Preston's "My Life in Words and Numbers" has been published with Annual Review of Sociology
Samuel Preston's "My Life in Words and Numbers" has been published with Annual Review of Sociology.Frank Furtstenberg Quoted in the Inquirer's "What will sex, dating, and marriage look like on the other side of the pandemic?"
Frank Furtstenberg has been quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer's "What will sex, dating, and mAlum Nora Gross Quoted in Billy Penn About Recent Documentary
Nora Gross (Ph.D., '20) has been quoted in an article onWendy Roth Publishes "The Role of Skin Color in Latino Social Networks: Color Homophily in Sending and Receiving Societies" with Sociology of Race & Ethnicity
Wendy Roth has published “The Role of Skin Color in Latino Social Networks: Color Homophily in Sending and Receiving Societies” wBirth Control Battles Receives ASA Section on Sociology of Religion 2020 Distinguished Book Award
Melissa Wilde's Birth Control Battles (UC Press) has been awarded ASA Section on Sociology of Religion's 2020 Distinguished Book AwaRoss Koppel Publishes Clinical, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Conversational Agents in Health Care in Journal of American Medical Association
Ross Koppel has published Clinical, Legal, and Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence–Assisted Conversational Agents in Health Care witMauro Guillén Interviewed by "Business Group on Health" in a Podcast Regarding Global Pandemic and the Decade Ahead
Mauro Guillén recently interviewed by "Business Group on Health" in a podcast regarding the global pandemic and the deca
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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.
Blue Chicago
The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences.
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.
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.
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders.
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.
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 Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs