LIJUN SONG
Ph.D. Duke University, 2009
TITLE:   Assistant Professor
OFFICE:   220C Garland Hall
EMAIL:   lijun.song@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:  615-322-1731
WEBSITE:  https://my.vanderbilt.edu/lijunsong/

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

The Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 2010-2011

University Central Research Scholar Grant (RSG) Program Summer Stipend Award, Vanderbilt University, 2010

Vorsanger-Smith Scholar, Duke University, Sociology Department, 2009

Spencer Education Science and Policy Scholar, Duke University, 2004-2006

2009 Graduate Student Paper Award from American Sociological Association, Asia/Asian Amercan Section: "The Cultural Revolution Depressed Educational Homogamy in Urban China."

COURSES TAUGHT

  Society and Medicine
  Social Capital and Health
  Chinese Society and Medicine


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social Networks/Social Capital
Medical Sociology
Stratification (Gender, Race, and Class)
Marriage and Family
Life Course and Aging
Chinese Society

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Social Capital, Health, and Well-Being across Three Societies
Social Capital and Health Lifestyles
A Tale of Multiple Social Capitals

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Song, Lijun. Forthcoming. "Raising Network Resources While Raising Children? Access to Social Capital by Parenthood Status, Gender, and Marital Status."Social Networks.

Song, Lijun. 2011. "Social Capital and Psychological Distress."Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52(4):478-492.

Song, Lijun. 2009. "The Effect of the Cultural Revolution on Educational Homogamy in Urban China." Social Forces 88(1):257-270.

Song, Lijun and Nan Lin. 2009. "Social Capital and Health Inequality: Evidence from Taiwan."Journal of Health and Social Behavior 50(2): 149-163.

Song, Lijun, Joonmo Son, and Nan Lin. 2011. "Social Support." Pp. 116-128 in The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis, edited by John Scott and Peter J. Carrington. London: SAGE.

Song, Lijun, Joonmo Son, and Nan Lin. 2010. "Social Capital and Health." Pp. 184-210 in The New Companion to Medical Sociology, edited by William C. Cockerham. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Song, Lijun and Nan Lin. 2010. "Social Capital and Health." Pp. 229-231 in Social Capital: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences,, edited by Nan Lin. Volume 4. New York: Routledge.

Lin, Nan, Yanlong Zhang, Wenhong Chen, Dan Ao, and Lijun Song. 2009. "Recruiting and Deploying Social Capital in Organizations: Theory and Evidence." Pp. 225-251 in Research in the Sociology of Work 18: Work and Organizations in China, edited by Lisa Keister. Emerald Press.

Lin, Nan, Dan Ao and Lijun Song. 2009."Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China." in Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Communities, Markets and Organizations, edited by Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin and Ronald Breiger. New York: Routledge, pp. 163-192.