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Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, publishes new paper in the American Journal of Sociology, titled, "The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South"
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, was selected as a nominee for the 2022 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research
João Nery Fiocchi Rodrigues, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, awarded the Nancy M. Farriss Award
Dylan Farrell-Bryan, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, and Ian Peacock, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at UCLA, published a data visualization in Socius titled, "Who Gets Deported? Immigrant Removal Rates by National Origin and Period, 1998 to 2021"
Courtney Boen, Professor of Demography and Sociology, publishes new paper in the Journal of Marriage and Family
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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Symposium on Ancestry DNA Testing: Seeking Roots and Uncovering Secrets
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Wendy Roth, Professor of Sociology
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Wendy Roth, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium
“Beyond Money Whitening: Racialized Hierarchies and Socioeconomic Escalators in Mexico”
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
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.
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders.
A Planet to Win
Why We Need a Green New Deal
A Planet to Win explores the political potential and concrete first steps of a Green New Deal.
There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
By: Lance Freeman
Temple University Press
The Wuhan Lockdown
Presenting the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people in their own voices, The Wuhan Lockdown is an unparalleled account of the first moments of the crisis that would define the age.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
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.
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.