SHEN Wensong
沈文松
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
  • Education
  • Health
  • Child Development
  • Social Inequality
  • Contemporary China
Selected publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Shen, Wensong, Emily Hannum, and Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng. 2025. “Adaptive Educational Expectations: How Do Parental Educational Expectations Respond to Child Academic Performance in Various Family Contexts?” Social Science Research 125:103097.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103097
Shen, Wensong, and Ruolin Su. Forthcoming. “Bullying Victimization and Its Life-course Shadows: Evidence from China.” Chinese Sociological Review.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21620555.2023.2292538
Shen, Wensong, and Emily Hannum. 2023. “Context-Relevant Risk and Protective Factors for Children in Rural Communities: Long-term Implications for Adulthood Educational and Mental Health Outcomes.” Journal of Community Psychology 51(2):724-744.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22909
Shen, Wensong. 2022. “A Tale of Two Genders: Demystifying Girls’ Concurrence of Higher Educational Achievement and Higher Depression Levels.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 81:100725.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100725
Shen, Wensong, Li-Chung Hu, and Emily Hannum. 2021. “Effect Pathways of Informal Family Separation on Children’s Outcomes: Paternal Labor Migration and Long-Term Educational Attainment of Left-behind Children in Rural China.” Social Science Research 97:102576.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102576
Shen, Wensong. 2020. “A Tangled Web: The Reciprocal Relationship between Depression and Educational Outcomes in China.” Social Science Research 85:102353.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102353
Book Chapters
Shen, Wensong, and Emily Hannum. 2024. “Education and Inequality in China.” In The Sage Handbook of Sociology of Education, edited by Mark Berends, Barbara Schneider, and Stephen Lamb. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Guest-Edited Journal Issues
Shen, Wensong. 2023. “Family and Education across Social Contexts in China.” Chinese Education & Society 56(2):99–101.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10611932.2023.2251832
Courses
  • SOCI 4010 Graduation Thesis I
  • SOCI 4020 Graduation Thesis II
  • SOCI 4204 Sociology of Education
  • SOCI 5503 Methods of Social Inquiry
  • SOCI 5631 Contemporary Chinese Society
  • SOCI 6010 Guided Studies I
  • SOCI 6020 Guided Studies II
  • UGEA 2190 Chinese Society