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

2012-2013 Research Scholar Fellowship, the University Central Research Scholars Grants (RSG) Program, Vanderbilt University

2010-1011 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellowship, Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University

2010 Summer Stipen Award, the University Central Research Scholar Grants (RSG) Program, Vanderbilt University

2009 Vorsanger-Smith Scholar, Duke University, Sociology Department

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

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

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. "Institutional Embeddedness of Network Embeddedness in the Workplace: Social Integration at Work and Employee's Health across Three Societies." Research in the Sociology of Work 24: Networks, Employment and Inequality, edited by Steve McDonald. Bingley, UK: Emerald Press.

Song, Lijun and Tian-Yun Chang. 2012. "Do Resources of Network Members Help in Help Seeking? Social Capital and Health Information Search." Social Networks 34(4):658-659.

Song, Lijun. 2012. "Raising Network Resources While Raising Children? Access to Social Capital by Parenthood Status, Gender, and Marital Status." Social Networks 34(2):241-252.

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.