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Daniel Aldana Cohen - April 2021 update
Nora M. Gross (Ph.D., 2020) has been named the 2021 recipient of The Jolley Bruce Christman and Steven S. Goldberg Annual Award for Best Dissertation in Urban Education through Penn GSE.
Y. Mertehikian award - April 2021
Penn Sociology congratulates joint Demography and Sociology doctoral student Rebecca Schut for being honored as a 2021 Dean's Scholar.
Angie N. Ocampo accepts positions at University of Pittsburgh and Princeton University
J. Jacobs & A. Dunatchik update, April 2021
C. Boen Stress & Health: Tip of the iceberg: Measuring racial discrimination in studies of health, March 2021
Dylan Farrell-Bryan was recently awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (ASA DDRIG funded through the National Science Foundation)
Benjamin Shestakofsky’s co-authored article on the sociology of AI published in Socius
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.