Past Events



**CANCELED** Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Workshop

Workshop
Feb 5, 2016 at -



Center for the Study of Contemporary China: Yu Xie, Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Michigan

Income and Wealth Inequality in China
Feb 4, 2016 at -

In this presentation, Professor Xie reviews results from his research program on income and wealth inequality in contemporary China, drawing on newly available survey data collected by several Chinese university survey…



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Mark Stern, Kenneth L.M. Pray Professor of Social Policy and History, University of Pennsylvania

Colloquium
Culture and Social Well-being in New York City
Feb 3, 2016 at -



PSC Colloquium Series: José-Víctor Ríos-Rull

TBA
Feb 1, 2016 at -



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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