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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.
Daniel Aldana Cohen was interviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the Texas electricity black-outs and how a Green New Deal could prevent such disasters.
Pilar 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.
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.
A. Dunatchik and J. Jacobs Update
Penn Population Scientists Win NAM Catalyst Grant Award LDI Senior Fellow Iliana Kohler Leads Aging and Health Project in Malawi, Africa
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.
Upcoming Events
Education & Inequality Works-in-Progress: Nadirah Foley, Harvard GSE
Presentation: "Saying Race, Doing Class: Color Consciousness and Class Evasiveness in an Affluent, Diverse Suburban School"
Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Rebbeca Tesfai, Associate Professor of Sociology, Temple University
Colloquium
Immigrant Neighborhoods and Eviction: Hidden Housing Crisis?
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.