Past Events



Education & Inequality: Soo-yong Byun, Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University

Workshop
Global Growth of Shadow Education - Family, School, and National Influences
Jan 29, 2016 at -

Supplemental education, or shadow education, is a salient educational phenomenon with considerable implications for social reproduction of advantage and educational expansion.



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University

Colloquium
"His, Her, and Their Marriages: re-verticalization of kinship loyalties in Urban China"
Jan 27, 2016 at -

Reading: Davis, Deborah S. (2014). "Privatization of Marriage in Post-Socialist China." Modern China, 40…



Contemporary East Asia Series: James Farrer

"Shanghai Nightscapes: A Historical Sociology of Urban Leisure Spaces"
Jan 25, 2016 at -

This talk will introduce the book Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City written by James Farrer and Andrew David Field (University of Chicago…



PSC Colloquium Series: Greg Ridgeway

"Effect of Rail Transit on Crime: A Study of Los Angeles from 1988-2014"
Jan 25, 2016 at -



Culture & Interaction: Sarah Adeyinka and David Sorge, Ph.D. Students, Penn Sociology

Workshop
TBA
Jan 22, 2016 at -

Readings for the workshop: 

Intermarriage and Unprivileged Natives:…



David Grazian Book Reading at Kelly Writers House

American Zoo: A Sociological Safari
Jan 20, 2016 at -

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Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Joshua Gamson, Professor of Sociology, University of San Francisco

Colloquium
"The Belly Mommy and the Fetus Sitter: The Reproductive Marketplace and Unconventional Family Creation."
Jan 20, 2016 at -



Family & Gender: Pete Harvey, Ph.D Student, Penn Sociology

Workshop
TBA
Jan 15, 2016 at -



Faculty Meeting (Standing Faculty Only)

Jan 13, 2016 at -



A Conversation with Charles Bosk at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School

What Would You Do? Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography
Dec 10, 2015 at -