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Joyce Kim, PhD Candidate in Soc & Higher Education, has won the Graduate Student paper award from the Altruism, Morality, & Social Solidarity section of ASA
Joyce Kim, PhD Candidate in Soc & Higher Education, has won the Graduate Student pXiuqi Yang's, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Demography, paper, "Duration and Timing of Parental Out-migration and Early Childhood Development in China," has been awarded an honorable mention by the ASA Section on Asian and Asian America Graduate Student
Xiuqi Yang's, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Demography, paper, "Duration and Timing of Parental Out-migration and Early Childhood Development in ChinOlivia Hu's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, "Let’s Talk About Race, Baby: How Interracial and Interethnic Relationships Influence East Asian Women’s Racial Ideologies" was awarded an honorable mention from ASA 2024
Olivia Hu's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, "Let’s Talk About RacJack Thornton's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, “‘Are We the Help?’ Frontline Fundraising as Elite Service Work", received the honorable mention for the Student Paper Award for the ASA's 2024 Section on Consumers and Consumption
Jack Thornton's, PhD Candidate in Sociology, paper, “‘Are We the Help?’ FrontlineHyunjoon Park, Jere Behrman, Irma Elo, Xi Song, & Paula Fomby, project, "Pathways to Education Development & Their Consequences: Finland, Korea, US", was awarded a 2024 Penn Global Research
Hyunjoon Park, Korea Foundation Professor of Sociology,Ben Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology's new book, "Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality", was reviewed in the New York Times & Published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review!
Ben Shestakofsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology's new book, "Behind theIrma Elo, Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor of Sociology, and Iliana Kohler, Practice Associate Professor in Sociology & Associate Director of the Populations Studies Center, awarded a 2024 Penn Global grant
Irma Elo, Tamsen and Michael Brown Presidential Professor of Sociology, and
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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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.
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
Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.
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.
Planning and Control of Land Development
By: Lance Freeman, With Daniel Mandelker, Carol Necole Brown, Stuart Meck, Dwight H. Merriam, Peter W. Salsich, Jr., and Edward J. Sullivan
University of North Carolina Press.
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.
