Skip to Content Skip to Content

Sociology

Negative financial shock increases loneliness in older adults
Black and white images of hands of an older person holding open an empty change purse of a wallet.

Negative financial shock increases loneliness in older adults

The conclusions hold even after accounting for changes in chronic health conditions and functional limitations, religious service attendance, and relationship strain.

Michele W. Berger

Wisconsin judge’s ‘regular folks’ remark shows how pandemic exposes classism

Wisconsin judge’s ‘regular folks’ remark shows how pandemic exposes classism

Annette Lareau of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the lack of contact between Americans from upper and lower classes. “There are few spaces where people of different classes encounter each other,” she said. “IKEA, the zoo, July Fourth parades. But increasingly, people stay within their own worlds. That helps them treat others with contempt and shame.”

‘Disease knows no borders’
Lazaretto quarantine hospital

‘Disease knows no borders’

From the history of science to medical anthropology, governance, and economics, Penn experts look at the history of global health from different perspectives to see what the future may hold.

Kristina Linnea García

The risk coronavirus poses to our tenuous, complex supply chain
Colorful shipping containers piled high, with one being loaded by a truck.

The risk coronavirus poses to our tenuous, complex supply chain

A disruption to any single link, from factories overseas to the truck driver delivering goods the final mile, could have a ripple effect, according to researcher Steve Viscelli.

Michele W. Berger

Greener economy ‘not science fiction anymore’
Two people standing outside on a lawn covered in leaves, holding a book titled "A Planet to Win, Why we need a Green New Deal."

In November 2019, Cohen presented Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a copy of the book outside the Pelham Parkway Houses in the Bronx, where they led a training on the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act. (Image: Gabriel Hernandez Solano)

Greener economy ‘not science fiction anymore’

A new book from Penn sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen and colleagues describes four key facets of the Green New Deal and why they could become a reality in the not-too-distant future.

Michele W. Berger

Less and later marriage in South Korea
Person in middle of open market in Seoul

Less and later marriage in South Korea

Sociologist Hyunjoon Park sheds light on why marriage rates are falling in South Korea, particularly among highly educated women and low-educated men.

Penn Today Staff

The Amish and the Anthropocene
Amish buggy traveling on a road with a farm in the background and snow-covered winter cropland in the foreground.

The Amish and the Anthropocene

Nicole Welk-Joerger, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, discusses what a technology adopted by the Amish can tell us about climate change and the future.

Penn Today Staff