Past Events



Book Talk: Patrick Sharkey (Chair of Sociology, NYU)

Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
Jan 29, 2018 at -

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PSC Colloquium Series: Xiaoying Liu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Populations Studies Center at Penn

What Happens in the Womb under the Dome: The Impact of Air Pollution on Birth Outcomes – Evaluation of air quality improvement during the Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games and Asian Paralympic Games
Jan 29, 2018 at -



2018 Penn Education and Inequality Cluster Mini-Conference

Workshop
Jan 26, 2018 at -

Education and Inequality Cluster in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania will host a mini-conference featuring two paper sessions: 1) Education and Social Mobility; 2) Housing and…



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Douglas Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Colloquium
Trends, Causes, and Consequences of Segregation
Jan 24, 2018 at -



Education & Inequality Works-in-Progress Meeting

Natalie Young, Feedback on manuscript: "Getting the teacher's attention: social class differences in parent-teacher contact in China and implications for students' experiences in the classroom
Jan 23, 2018 at -



PSC Colloquium Series: Sam Clark, Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University

Mortality Models: Probabilistic Cause of Death from Verbal Autopsy and a General Model of Age-specific
Jan 22, 2018 at -



Culture, Ethnography, and Interaction: Jerry A. Jacobs and Charles Bosk, Professors of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

Workshop
Science as a Vocation
Jan 19, 2018 at -

Science as a Vocation - Max Weber

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MARC: Melissa Aronczyk is Associate Professor in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University

The Climate of Publicity: Global Warming, Strategic Communication and the Anxieties of Influence
Jan 18, 2018 at -

In this talk Aronczyk examines the strategic dimensions of communicating climate change, exploring a range of historical and contemporary efforts by professional influencers to promote, shape and influence what we…



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Lauren Rivera, Associate Professor of Management & Organizations and Sociology, Northwestern University

Colloquium
"When Two Bodies Are (Not) a Problem: Gender and Relationship Status Discrimination in Academic Hiring"
Jan 17, 2018 at -



Faculty Meeting (Standing Faculty Only)

Jan 10, 2018 at -