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Haley Pilgrim awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Involvement Recognition Award
Sociology Ph.D. student Haley Pilgrim was recently awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Irma Elo featured in two NBC10 Investigators reports
Irma Elo was recently featured in two NBC10 Investigators reports; one discussed howSociology alum Tiffany Yau ('18) featured in Forbes discussing social entrepreneurship education in underserved communities
Sociology alum Tiffany Yau ('18) was recently featured inDaniel Aldana Cohen's research and new book featured in Foreign Policy and Local Talk (Israel)
Daniel Aldana Cohen's co-authored book, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal was recently reviewed in ForeignHyunjoon Park co-authored article on marriage decline in Korea published in Demography
Hyunjoon Park's article, co-authored with James Raymo (Princeton, Professor of Sociology), "Marriage Decline in Korea: Changing Composition of the Domestic Marriage Market and Growth in International Marriage," was recently pCourtney Boen's co-authored article on health disparities for U.S.- and foreign-born Hispanics relative to U.S. born Whites and Blacks published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Courtney Boen's co-authored article (With Robert A.New book by Renee Fox published: Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist
A new book by Renee Fox, Professor Emerita in Sociology, has been published by Anthem Press: Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist. Per the publisher's website:Ph.D. candidate Nora Gross featured in Inquirer article on gun violence and the subsequent grieving process of Black teen boys
Ph.D. candidate Nora Gross was recently featured in an Inquirer article that focused on how Black teen boys grieve after losing friends to gun violence.Ph.D. graduate Ran Liu ('19) to join University of Wisconsin-Madison as Assistant Professor in Educational Policy Studies
Sociology Ph.D. graduate Ran Liu ('19) will join the Education School at University of Wisconsin-Madison as Assistant Professor in Educational Policy Studies in Spring 2020.Regina Baker authors paper on poverty in the U.S. south
Regina Baker recently published a paper in Social Forces titled, "Why is the American South Poorer?".
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Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Race, Class, and Residence in Los Angeles
Camille Zubrinsky Charles, Ph.D.
Sociologist Camille Zubrinsky Charles explores how modern racial attitudes shape and are shaped by the places in which people live.
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
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