Philip N. Cohen | |
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Born | 1967 (age 49–50) |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Sociology and demography |
Institutions | University of California, Irvine (1999-2005), University of North Carolina (2005-2011), University of Maryland (2011-) |
Alma mater | University of Michigan (BA); University of Massachusetts (MA in Sociology); University of Maryland (PhD in Sociology) |
Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is co-editor, with Syed Ali, of Contexts, the quarterly magazine of the American Sociological Association, and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences.
Cohen graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in American Culture, from the University of Massachusetts with an M.A. in Sociology, and from the University of Maryland with a Ph.D. in Sociology. His previous faculty positions were at the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Irvine
He is a sociologist and demographer who works in the areas of families and inequality, social demography, and social inequality. His concerns include gender and race/ethnic segregation in occupations, gender and authority, unpaid housework and care work, health disparities, and demographic measurement.
He is chair of the American Sociological Association section on Sociology of the Family. He also is an Associate of the Maryland Population Research Center, a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Contemporary Families, and secretary-treasurer of the American Sociological Association's Population Section.
Cohen wrote The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change, published in 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company.