About

Joseph N. Cohen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College in the City University of New York. His substantive specialties include social organization, culture, technology, and economic life. He is a faculty member in Queens College’s Program in Data Analytics & Applied Social Research.

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Featured Content

• Recommended data sets for your major project or thesis

Household Finance

• R Package: scf (CRAN / GitHub) (2026)
• Technical Note: Analyzing the Survey of Consumer Finances with scf (2026)
• Technical Note: Percentile-Based Grouping in SCF Analysis (2026)
• Research Note: Partner Age Discrepancies and Wealth Accumulation (2025)
• Book: Financial Crisis in America’s Middle Class (2017)

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Culture

• Paper: “Fame: Its Character, Acquisition, and Loss”
• Paper: “Adapting to AI: How Will Generative AI Affect Work? How Should We Respond?“

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Other Software

• External Namespaces. Obsidian plugin to facilitate use with synchronized drives like Dropbox or OneDrive.

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Fall 2026

• DATA 790: Strategy & Decision-Making. Graduate-level, professionally-focused course that surveys big philosophical and social scientific ideas related to best practice in strategic planning and decision-making for enterprise managers.
• DATA 306: Quantitative Modeling. Students will learn to develop predictive models using various forms of regression analysis on the statistical programming platform R.