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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
Xiuqi 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
Olivia 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
Jack 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
Hyunjoon 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
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!
Irma 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
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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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.
There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
By: Lance Freeman
Temple University Press
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.
Blue Chicago
The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences.
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.
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.
Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.