Philip N. Cohen

Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park,[1] and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences.[2]

Philip N. Cohen
Born1967 (age 53–54)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (BA); University of Massachusetts (MA in Sociology); University of Maryland (PhD in Sociology)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology and demography
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine (1999-2005), University of North Carolina (2005-2011), University of Maryland (2011-)

Early life

Cohen grew up in Ithaca, New York and attended the Lehman Alternative Community School.[3]

Career

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.[4]

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.[5]

He is a member of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Committee on Publications,[6] and was formerly chair of the ASA's section on Sociology of the Family.[7] He also is an Associate of the Maryland Population Research Center,[8] and was formerly secretary-treasurer of the ASA Population Section.[9] He was co-editor, with Syed Ali, of Contexts, the quarterly magazine of the ASA, from 2014 to 2017.

Books

Cohen has written two books:

  • The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change, first published in 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company; the third edition was published in 2020.[10]
  • Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible, published in 2018 by the University of California Press.[11]

He is co-editor, with Syed Ali, of The Contexts Reader, a collection of essays from the magazine Contexts, the quarterly magazine of the American Sociological Association.[12]

Research

Cohen's paper on divorce, "The Coming Divorce Decline,"[13] reported a drop in U.S. divorce rates from 2008 to 2017, and predicted further declines in the coming years. It was reported by Bloomberg News,[14] the Today show,[15] Buzzfeed,[16] and the Atlantic.[17]

His work on labor market inequality has focused on race/ethnic and gender inequality in the United States. On race, he has published in the American Journal of Sociology[18] (with Matt Huffman) and Social Forces,[19] assessing the relationship between demographic composition of labor markets and patterns of inequality.

In the area of gender inequality, his research (with Matt Huffman) has addressed occupational segregation and gender devaluation[20] and the effects of women in workplace management positions.[21][22] Alone as well as with a number of different co-authors, he has published research on the gender division of household labor.[23][24][25][26]

On family structure, he has addressed issues of measurement, including how to identify cohabiting couples in U.S. Census data.,[27] and the language used for marriage (homogamy and heterogamy).[28]

On health disparities, he has studied the COVID-19 pandemic in rural U.S. counties,[29] disability rates among adopted children,[30] the living arrangements of children with disabilities,[31] the relationship between parental age and childhood disability,[32] and race/ethnic disparities in infant mortality.[33]

Some of Cohen's research is part of the tradition of intersectionality, including his work on the American women's suffrage movement;[34] and on the relationship between population composition and inequality by race, class and gender.[35]

Congressional Testimony

In 2007, Cohen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, on equal pay for women workers.[36] The legislation under consideration at that hearing eventually became the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

Public Work

Cohen has been the author of the Family Inequality blog since 2009.[37]

His writing has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review,[38] the Washington Post,[39] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[40] Sociological Images,[41] The Atlantic,[42] The Daily Beast,[43] Boston Review,[44] Huffington Post,[45] Time,[46] Pacific Standard,[47] LSE Impact Blog,[48] The Conversation,[49] Salon,[50] CNN,[51] the Hill,[52] and the New Republic.[53]

He has also contributed to news reports for such sources as the New York Times, Time magazine, NPR, the Washington Post, MSNBC and Vox.com.[54]

In 2011 he served as a consultant to the United States Census Bureau for its release of the first enumeration of same-sex married couples from the 2010 decennial census.[55]

Cohen is an advocate for open scholarship and open access for academic research.[56] He organized SocArXiv, an open research repository for the social sciences.[57] SocArXiv launched Open Scholarship for the Social Sciences (O3S), a conference at the University of Maryland, in 2017.[58]

He is a plaintiff in the lawsuit Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump, filed July 11, 2017. In the lawsuit, a group of Twitter users blocked by U.S. President Donald Trump's account alleged that this blocking was a violation of their First Amendment rights.[59] The case was decided in the plaintiffs' favor on May 23, 2018.[60]

Photography
Philip N. Cohen photo from the photo essay, It's Better to be Angry Together

Cohen's photography has appeared in Contexts magazine,[61] and in news reports.[62]

References
  1. Philip N. Cohen website
  2. SocArXiv
  3. "How ACS Inspired Philip Cohen’s Crusade for Equality," Four from Four: Lehman Alternative Community School's Alumni Journal.
  4. Philip N. Cohen
  5. Google Scholar list of publications
  6. ASA Committee on Publications webpage
  7. ASA Family Section webpage
  8. Maryland Population Research Center
  9. ASA Population Section
  10. The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change at Norton
  11. Enduring Bonds at University of California Press
  12. The Contexts Reader at W. W. Norton.
  13. Cohen, Philip N. (2018). "The Coming Divorce Decline". SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/h2sk6.
  14. "Millennials Are Causing the U.S. Divorce Rate to Plummet". Bloomberg News. September 25, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  15. "Why millennials are being credited with dropping divorce rate". Today. September 26, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  16. "Millennials Are Being Blamed For "Killing" Divorce, And The Jokes Basically Wrote Themselves". Buzzfeed. September 26, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  17. "The Not-So-Great Reason Divorce Rates Are Declining". The Atlantic. September 25, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
  18. Huffman, Matt L.; Cohen, Philip N. (2004). "Racial Wage Inequality: Job Segregation and Devaluation Across U.S. Labor Markets". American Journal of Sociology. 109 (4): 902–936. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.560.2662. doi:10.1086/378928. JSTOR 10.1086/378928.
  19. Cohen, Philip N (1998). "Black Concentration Effects on Black-White and Gender Inequality: Multilevel Analysis for U.S. Metropolitan Areas". Social Forces. 77 (1): 207–229. doi:10.1093/sf/77.1.207. JSTOR 3006015.
  20. Cohen, Philip N.; Huffman, Matt L. (2003). "Individuals, Jobs, and Labor Markets: The Devaluation of Women's Work". American Sociological Review. 68 (3): 443–63. doi:10.2307/1519732. JSTOR 1519732.
  21. Cohen, Philip N.; Huffman, Matt L. (2007). "Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap". American Sociological Review. 72 (5): 681–704. doi:10.1177/000312240707200502.
  22. Huffman, Matt L.; Cohen, Philip N.; Pearlman, Jessica (2010). "Engendering Change: Organizational Dynamics and Workplace Gender Segregation, 1975-2005". Administrative Science Quarterly. 55 (2): 255–277. doi:10.2189/asqu.2010.55.2.255.
  23. Cohen, Philip N (2004). "The Gender Division of Labor: 'Keeping House' and Occupational Segregation in the United States". Gender and Society. 18 (2): 239–252. doi:10.1177/0891243203262037. JSTOR 4149435.
  24. Batalova, Jeanne A. (2002). "Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective". Journal of Marriage and Family. 64 (3): 743–755. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.470.7312. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2002.00743.x.
  25. Fuwa, Makiko (2007). "Housework and social policy". Social Science Research. 36 (2): 512–530. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.04.005.
  26. Geist, Claudia (2011). "Headed Toward Equality? Housework Change in Comparative Perspective". Journal of Marriage and Family. 73 (4): 832–844. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00850.x. PMC 3898932.
  27. Casper, Lynne M.; Cohen, Philip N. (2000). "How Does POSSLQ Measure Up? Historical Estimates of Cohabitation". Demography. 37 (2): 237–45. doi:10.2307/2648125. JSTOR 2648125. PMID 10836181.
  28. Cohen, Philip N. (2011). "Homogamy Unmodified". Journal of Family Theory & Review. 3: 47–51. doi:10.1111/j.1756-2589.2010.00080.x.
  29. Cohen, Philip N. (202). "The COVID-19 Epidemic in Rural U.S. Counties". SocArXiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/pnqrd.
  30. Kreider, Rose; Cohen, Philip N. (2009). "Disability Among Internationally Adopted Children in the United States". Pediatrics. 124 (5): 1311–1318. doi:10.1542/peds.2008-3206. PMID 19858154.
  31. Cohen, Philip N. (2006). "Gendered Living Arrangements Among Children With Disabilities". Journal of Marriage and Family. 68 (3): 630–638. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00279.x.
  32. Cohen, Philip N (2014). "Parental Age and Cognitive Disability among Children in the United States". Sociological Science. 1: 102–110. doi:10.15195/v1.a8.
  33. Cohen, Philip N (2016). "Maternal Age and Infant Mortality for White, Black, and Mexican Mothers in the United States". Sociological Science. 3: 32–38. doi:10.15195/v3.a2.
  34. Cohen, Philip N. (1996). "Nationalism and Suffrage: Gender Struggle in Nation-Building America". Signs. 21 (3): 707–727. doi:10.1086/495103. JSTOR 3175176.
  35. Cohen, Philip N. (2001). "Race, Class, and Labor Markets: The White Working Class and Racial Composition of U.S. Metropolitan Areas". Social Science Research. 30: 146–169. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.497.3381. doi:10.1006/ssre.2000.0693.
  36. Senate HELP Committee testimony
  37. Family Inequality blog
  38. Philip Cohen op-ed in the New York Times Sunday Review
  39. Philip Cohen op-ed in Washington Post
  40. Philip Cohen op-ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education
  41. Philip Cohen posts at Sociological Images
  42. Philip Cohen author profile at TheAtlantic.com
  43. Philip Cohen author profile at thedailybeast.com
  44. Philip Cohen contributions to Boston Review
  45. Philip Cohen author profile at Huffington Post
  46. Philip Cohen author profile at Time.com
  47. Philip Cohen author profile at Pacific Standard,
  48. Philip Cohen essay on LSE Impact Blog,
  49. Philip Cohen author profile at The Conversation
  50. Philip Cohen author profile at Salon
  51. "The divorce fairness issue that Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos don't have to worry about"
  52. Philip Cohen essay in The Hill
  53. Philip Cohen author profile at The New Republic
  54. List of media references
  55. Census Bureau news release
  56. Philip Cohen essay on SocOpen.org
  57. SocArXiv website
  58. O3S website
  59. Neumeister, Larry (July 11, 2017). "Trump sued for blocking some of his critics on Twitter". The Washington Post. Associated Press. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  60. "Trump's Blocking of Twitter Users Is Unconstitutional, Judge Says". The New York Times. May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  61. "It's Better to be Angry Together". Contexts. Fall 2017. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  62. "Vacation home a total loss after Outer Banks fire". WTKR. August 23, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
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