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Wensong Shen's paper, "A Tangled Web: The Reciprocal Relationship between Depression and Educational Outcomes in China," is now available in ScholarlyCommons’ Penn Education and Inequality Working Paper.
Wensong Shen's paper, "A Tangled Web: The Reciprocal Relationship between Depression and Educational OutcoDaniel Aldana Cohen was interviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the Texas electricity black-outs and how a Green New Deal could prevent such disasters.
Daniel Aldana Cohen was interviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the Texas electricity black-outs and how a GrePilar Gonalons-Pons has published, with Markus Gangl, Regulated earnings security: the relationship between employment protection and unemployment scarring over the Great Recession in Socio-Economic Review.
Pilar Gonalons-Pons has published, with Markus Gangl,Daniel Aldana Cohen advised Senator Ed Markey's office on its new environmental justice mapping bill, based on his ongoing research with the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, and was cited in the bill announcement.
Daniel Aldana Cohen advised Senator Ed Markey's office on its new environmental justice mapping bill, based on his ongoing research with the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, and wasA. Dunatchik and J. Jacobs Update
Allison Dunatchik and Jerry Jacobs were featured in recent articles in The Nation (“Covid-19 Has Been Hardest on Women”), the New York Times (“What thPenn Population Scientists Win NAM Catalyst Grant Award LDI Senior Fellow Iliana Kohler Leads Aging and Health Project in Malawi, Africa
Penn Population Scientists Win NAM Catalyst Grant Award
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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Medical Sociology: Myles D. Moody, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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"The Social Determinants of Health: Racism and Racism-Related Stress"
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Orly Clerge, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Univ. of California, Davis
Colloquium
“The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia”
Education & Inequality: Annette Lareau, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Social Sciences Professor of Sociology, Penn Sociology
Workshop
Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant-Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up, University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Faculty Bookshelf
Um planeta a conquistar
A urgência de um Green New Deal
Brazilian Portuguese translation of A Planet to Win, with a new Preface by Raquel Rolnik.
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.
Birth Control Battles
How Race and Class Divided American Religion
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Melissa J.
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.
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
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.
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.
