Philip "PJ" Pettis

Biography

Philip J. "PJ" Pettis is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Pettis, LMSW, MA, examines how sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, gender, age, and SES intersect to shape social, economic, and health inequalities. He draws on theoretical insights and perspectives from medical sociology, the sociology of sexualities, race/ethnicity, gender, social networks, social psychology, and stratification to examine the following three research questions: 1) How do social identiti