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Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Elizabeth Popp Berman, Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, University of Michigan
Colloquium
Thinking Like an Economist: How Economics Became the Language of U.S. Public Policy
Education & Inequality Works-in-Progress; Peter F. Harvey
“‘What are you Doing?’ Teachers’ Affective Orientations Towards Black Girls.” (Working Paper)
Medical Sociology: Elaine M. Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University
Workshop
“The Effect of In Utero Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Subsequent Births and Child Mortality in the United States.”
Faculty Bookshelf
Putting Poor People to Work
How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor
by Kathleen M. Shaw, Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, Jerry Jacobs
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
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.
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.
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.
Re-Evaluating Education in Japan and Korea
Demystifying Stereotypes
International comparisons of student achievement in mathematics, science, and reading have consistently shown that Japanese and Korean students outperform their peers in other parts of world.