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Penn Today featured Pilar Gonalons-Pons's research about gender norms which shows that, in cultures that value men as breadwinners, their unemployment can affect the long-term success of a romantic relationship.
Penn Today featured Pilar Gonalons-Pons's research about gender norms which shows that, inSteve Viscelli Weighs in On Truck Driver Shortage; May 2021
Steve Viscelli weighed in with NPR's Planet Money on the reality of the truck driver shortage.Pilar Gonalons-Pons has published Marriage and Masculinity: Male-Breadwinner Culture, Unemployment, and Separation Risk in 29 Countries with American Sociological Review and is now available through Online First.
Pilar Gonalons-Pons has published Marriage and Masculinity: Male-Breadwinner Culture, Unemployment, and Separation Risk in 29 CountriesBlair Sackett has been announced as a co-winner of ASA's Clifford Clogg Award for the best graduate student paper in the Methodology Section for her paper "Ghosted: Disappearance in Qualitative Research in the Digital Era."
Blair Sackett has been announced as a co-winner of ASA's Clifford Clogg Award for the best graduate student paper in the Methodology Section for her paper "Ghosted: Disappearance in Qualitative Research in the Digital ErGSS Selects Daniel Aldana Cohen as the 2020-2021 GSS Mentor of the Year Award Winner
GSS is pleased to announce that Daniel Aldana Cohen is the 2020-2021 GSS Mentor of the Year Award Winner!! Here are some highlights from Daniel's nominators:"Courtney Boen and Morgan Hoke; The Long-term Health Effects of Eviction on Young Adults
Courtney Boen and Morgan Hoke's new research regarding long-term health effects of eviction on young adultIrma T. Elo, Samuel Preston, and Andrew Stokes a Part of New Study, Published in PLOS
Irma T. Elo, Samuel Preston, and alumnus Andrew Stokes along with collaborators Jacob Bor, Dielle J.Doron Shiffer-Sebba and Hyunjoon Park have published US Baby Boomers' Homeownership Trajectories Across the Life Course: A Sequence Analysis Approach with Demographic Research
Doron Shiffer-Sebba and Hyunjoon Park have publishedRegina Baker has been awarded a Trustees' Council of Penn Women (TCPW) Faculty Research Grant for her project, "Historical Racialized Institutional Contexts and Contemporary Inequalities across Southern Counties."
Regina Baker has been awarded a Trustees' Council of Penn Women (TCPW) Faculty Research Grant for her project, "Historical Racialized Institutional Conte2021 The Otto and Gertrude K. Pollak Summer Research Fellowship Recipients
Graduate students in the Sociology Department, including joint students, are eligible to apply for Pollak Summer Research Fellowships. This award provides a summer stipend and/or research funds. Below are this year’s recipients.
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.
Faculty Bookshelf
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders.
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.
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.
The Power of the Internet in China
Citizen Activism Online
A pioneering and award-winning study of the innovative forms and multi-institutional dynamics of internet activism in China.
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
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.
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.
