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Nazar Khalid, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Demography contributes to RSF Journal
Ran Wang, Graduate Student, Annenberg and Sociology, published new paper in Qualitative Sociology
Nissim Mizrachi, PhD will present his book Beyond Suspicion: The Moral Clash Between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism on Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Demie Kurz, PhD Research Affiliate in the Department of Sociology, published a new book.
Roberto Gonzales, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Education Quoted in Boston Globe
Benjamin Shestakofsky Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, co-authors new article
Dorothy Roberts, Penn Sociology Standing Faculty, Receives the MacArthur Genius Award!
Unequal Childhoods, by Annette Lareau, PhD has recently been translated and published into French
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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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.
Korean Education in Changing Economic and Demographic Contexts
Hyunjoon Park and Kyung-keun Kim, Editors
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Wuhan Lockdown
Presenting the extraordinary experiences of ordinary people in their own voices, The Wuhan Lockdown is an unparalleled account of the first moments of the crisis that would define the age.