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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.
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Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
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Workshop
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Faculty Bookshelf
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
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders.
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 Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
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
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.
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.