photos: Claudette Agustin

“Political Sociology and the People’s Health,”
by Jason Beckfield, PhD

Part of the Small Books, Big Ideas in Population Health series edited by Professor Nancy Krieger, PhD

Jason Beckfield, PhD, Harvard Sociology Professor and Associate Director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

“A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of institutions that unequally allocate power and social goods. Neither is wrong — but can the two talk to one another? In a stirring new synthesis, Political Sociology and the People’s Health advances the debate over social inequalities in health by offering a new set of provocative hypotheses around how health is distributed in and across populations. It joins political sociology’s macroscopic insights into social policy, labor markets, and the racialized and gendered state with social epidemiology’s conceptualizations and measurements of populations, etiologic periods, and distributions.” published by Oxford University Press

This event is over, but below are the details of the event.

We’re Celebrating our Associate Director’s New Book with a Reception and Book Signing Event

WHEN: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from 4:00–6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard Square, 9 Bow Street, Cambridge