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Daniel Aldana Cohen published an essay with The Century FounDamon Centola Featured in Knowable Magazine Regarding COVID-19 Prevention
Damon Centola was featured in a Knowable Magazine article entitled, "Hans-Peter Kohler Quoted in Associated Press
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Kennan Cepa has co-authored an article with Frank Furstenberg which has been published in Journal of Family Issues. The paper investigates whether Americans' beliefs about theXi Song Writes on Financial Shock, Loneliness, and COVID-19
Xi Song's work has been highlighted in Penn Today in regard to COVID-19's financial impact and loPilar Gonalons-Pons Pens Op-Ed About Women, Domestic Work, and Coronavirus for The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pilar Gonalons-Pons wrote an op-ed for The Philadelphia Inquirer about
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Faculty Bookshelf
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.
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
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.
American Zoo
A Sociological Safari
David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders.
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.
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.
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.
Mix It Up
Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society
A twenty-first century introduction to sociological thinking on pop culture, the media, and society.
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.