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Olivia Hu, PhD Candidate in Sociology, awarded an honorable mention from the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities James E. Blackwell Graduate Student Paper Award
Courtney Boen, Professor of Sociology, and Annelise Luck, PhD Candidate in Demography and Sociology have published a new co-authored paper in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior
Olivia Hu, PhD Candidate in Sociology, published her first publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal, titled, "Linking Race and Genes: Racial Conceptualization among Genetic Ancestry Test-Takers"
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Assistant Professor of Sociology, published new co-authored working paper titled, "Measuring Care Provision in the United States: Resources, Shortfalls, and Possible Improvements"
Elena van Stee, PhD Candidate in Sociology, has been named the newly-appointed blog editor for Contexts, the public-facing magazine of the American Sociological Association
Alexander Adames, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Receives Graduate Student Paper Award from ASA
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 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.
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
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.
There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
By: Lance Freeman
Temple University Press
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.
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.
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.
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.