Sociology

Protesters both pro- and anti-choice holding signs in Washington D.C.

One year post-Dobbs, what’s actually happened?

Four takeaways from Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences researchers in the aftermath of the 2022 Supreme Court decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion.

Race-based medicine is not the solution to health disparities

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts says that race is a social category affected by inequality, not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities.

The ‘true value of women’s work’

The Wages for Housework movement is a precursor to the Child Tax Credit and guaranteed income, says sociologist Pilar Gonalons-Pons. A community center in Germantown houses their 50-year archive and carries on the work.

Why experts aren’t all that concerned about Biden’s and Trump’s ages

An analysis of Social Security Administration data conducted by Samuel Preston of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited.

Why class diversity can be ‘invisible’ at colleges

Camille Charles of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the socioeconomic diversity of Black students on college campuses.

Illustration of several people with varying fullness of body sketching.

Seeing disability differently

Scholars are trying to understand—and change—how the world works for people with disabilities.

Two people in a wheat field wearing masks looking at a tablet.

Comparing urban and rural excess mortality during COVID-19

The first-ever county-level study of excess mortality in the United States shows monthly excess deaths spread from large cities to rural counties in the second year of the pandemic.

Just made a queer memory? Drop a pin

Casey Ross of the School of Arts & Sciences uses Queering the Map, a crowdsourced digital atlas of LGBTQ landmarks, as course material to show that maps can be tools of outreach, storytelling, and “disruption.”

Schools in poorer neighborhoods struggle to keep teachers. How offering them more money and power might help

Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education says that giving educators more authority at their workplace makes them feel like respected professionals.

Making Turkey great again: How Erdogan rode to reelection on a nationalist wave

Harun Küçük of the School of Arts & Sciences says that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rosy view of the country’s future resonated with voters more than the opposition’s focus on his missteps.

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