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Steve Viscelli's research featured in Frontline documentary: In the Age of AI
Steve Viscelli's research on the trucking industry was featured in the PBS Frontline documentary In the Age of AI.David Grazian discusses Coworking Spaces with Penn Today
In Penn Today, David Grazian discusses his research on coworking spaces, and the necessity of businesses having a physical space.Ross Koppel Discusses Ransomware on PBS NewsHour
Ross Koppel was recently featured on PBS NewsHour discussing the connection between ransomware, data breaches and fatal heart attacks.Ross Koppel Discusses AI and Healthcare with Penn Today
Ross Koppel was recently featured in a Penn Today article discussing the impact of artifical intelligence on health care.Nora Gross Featured in Omnia Discussing Black Boys, Grief, and Guns in Urban Schools
Nora Gross recently spoke to Omnia about her disseration. You can read the full article here.Wendy D. Roth Interviewed by Huffington Post
Wendy D. Roth was recently interviewed by Huffington Post on DNA test results and affirmative action programs.Iliana Kohler Named as a Perelman School of Medicine Center for Global Health Scholar
Iliana Kohler, PSC Associate Director & PARC Associate, was accepted as a Perelman School of Medicine Center for Global Health SDaniel Aldana Cohen’s Co-Hosted Conference, Designing a Green New Deal, Featured in Penn Today
Daniel Aldana Cohen quoted in Penn Today, about the massive public conference he co-hosted,Ross Koppel Co-Authors Study in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
"Physicians’ gender and their use of electronic health records: findings from a mixed-methods usability study."Ph.D. Student Mengyang Zhao featured in ChinaFile’s "Thwarted at Home, Can China’s Feminists Rebuild a Movement Abroad?"
Mengyang Zhao was recently featured in ChinaFile for her research on diaspora Chinese feminists
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Faculty Bookshelf
The Changing Face of Medicine
Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America
By Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs
Vatican II
A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change
On an otherwise ordinary Sunday morning in 1964, millions of Roman Catholics around the world experienced history.
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.
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
Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.