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Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dorothy Roberts profiled in New York Magazine
"The post-Roe era has made Roberts’s work grimly essential as both prophecy and cautionary tale." Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dorothy Roberts is profiled in New York Magazine for her foundational work on reproductive jusOlivia Haynie C'24 and Justin Seward C'25, majoring in Sociology at Penn, will be presenting their Undergraduate Research Mentor project at the CURF Fall Research Expo
This summer, Olivia Haynie C’24 majoring in Sociology at Penn worked with another intended Sociology major, Justin Seward, C’25, on a Penn Undergraduate Research and Mentor project.Junhow Wei, a PhD graduate of Sociology, has recently become the Assistant Dean at Princeton University and published an article in the NACADA journal on stealth academic advising
Junhow Wei, a PhD graduate of the Sociology program, has recently become the Assistant Dean at Princeton University and has also published an article in thCourtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding Joe Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Drawing on her research on wealth and health, Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, offers insights into the health implications of Biden’s debt forgiveness plan.Rebecca Schut, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Health and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago and Courtney Boen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, recently published a working series paper
Rebecca Schut, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Health and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago andLance Freeman, Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology, was recently published in the Lincoln Institute
Lance Freeman, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology, was recently published by the Lincoln InElena van Stee, PhD student in Sociology, had her article, "Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis" published in Sociology Compass
Elena van Stee, PhD student in Sociology, had her article, "Parenting young adults across social class: A review and synthesis" publisheTuğçe Ellialti-Köse, PhD graduate from the class of 2020, offered an Assistant Professor Position at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada
Tuğçe Ellialti-Köse, who received her PhD from Penn Sociology in 2020, has recently been offered a tenure-track position at the ran
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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.
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
Explosive Conflict: Time-Dynamics of Violence
By: Randall Collins
This sequel to Randall Collins' world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does.
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.
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.
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.
Gender Inequality at Work
This book addresses many of the dimensions of gender inequality at work, looking at a number of important topics including: pay equity; the impact of feminization on certain professions; and barrie
