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

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

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

        


RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

"Your Body Knows Who You Know: The Effect of Social Capital on Depressive Symptoms."

"What Dimensions of Social Capital Influence Health; Quantity, Quality, or Diversity?"

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Song, Lijun. Forthcoming. "Does Who You Know Predict Your Well-Being: The Effect of Social Capital on Life Satisfaction." in Social Capital: A Comparative Study., editors Nan Lin, Yang-Chih Fu, and Chih-Jou Chen. Cambridge University Press.

Song, Lijun, Joonmo Son, and Nan Lin. Forthcoming. "Social Support" in Handbook of Social Network Analyses, editors John Scott and Peter J. Carrington. London: The Russell Sage Foundation.

Song, Lijun and Nan Lin. Forthcoming. "Social Capital and Health." in Social Capital., editor Nan Lin. New York: Routledge.

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

Song, Lijun, Joonmo Son, and Nan Lin. 2009. "Social Capital and Health." Pp. 184-210 in The New Companion to Medical Sociology, editor William C. Cockerham. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Lin, Nan, Yanlong Zhang, Wenhong Chen, Dan Ao, and Lijun Song. 2009. "Recruiting and Deploying Social Capital in Organizations: Theory and Evidence." Pp. 225-51 in Research in the Sociology of Work 18: Work and Organizations in China, editor Lisa Keister. Emerald Press.

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

Lin, Nan, Dan Ao and Lijun Song. 2009."Production and Returns of Social Capital: Evidence from Urban China." Pp. 107-132 in Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Communities, Markets and Organizations, editors Ray-May Hsung, Nan Lin and Ronald Breiger. New York: Routledge.