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In Remembrance of Renee C. Fox
We are deIliana Kohler received the National Institute on Aging R03 "Catalyst Award" grant under the RFA “Innovations to Foster Healthy Longevity in Low-Income Settings."
Iliana Kohler received the National Institute on Aging R03 "Catalyst Award" grant under the RFA “Innovations to Foster Healthy Longevity in Low-IDaniel Aldana Cohen published "New York City as ‘fortress of solitude’ after Hurricane Sandy: a relational sociology of extreme weather’s relationship to climate politics" in Environmental Politics
Daniel Aldana Cohen published "New York City as ‘fortress of solitude’ after Hurricane Sandy: a relational sociolIn Remembrance of Charles L. Bosk
In remembrance of our colleague and friend, Charles L.Hyunjoon Park Publishes "Men and Women's Different Dreams on the Future of the Gendered Division of Paid Work and Household Work after COVID-19 in South Korea" in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Hyunjoon Park has published this co-authored paper, "Daniel Aldana Cohen's research was cited in the Senate Democrats' Special Committee on the Climate Crisis's major policy report, "The Case for Climate Action."
Daniel Aldana Cohen's research was cited in the Senate Democrats' Special Committee on the Climate Crisis's major policy report, "T
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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.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
On the Make
The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
David Grazian’s riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons.
Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.
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.
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.
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
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