Florencia Torche

Florencia Torche (* in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American sociologist at Stanford University .

Torche is considered an expert on social inequality and social mobility , for social demography and sociology of education . She is known for her work on the importance of educational success for social mobility and the effect of prenatal stress on the health, cognitive development and educational success of a child.

Live and act

Florencia Torche grew up in Santiago de Chile . In 1996 she obtained a Bachelor's degree from the Universidad Católica de Chile and a Master’s degree from Columbia University in 2000 , both in sociology. For her work at Seymour Spilerman Unequal but fluid: Mobility Patterns in Chile in Comparative Perspective , she received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004. in sociology.

After academic positions at the City University of New York (2004–2006, Assistant Professor ) and New York University (2006–2016, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor ), Torche is (as of 2020) Professor of Sociology at Stanford University .

Torche deals with questions of the persistence of social inequality across generations and the factors that hinder social mobility across generations - also in an international comparison. Further work deals with the consequences of exposure to environmental pressures in utero , drawing on differences between different countries as a natural experiment . She was also able to show that these consequences are stronger in socially disadvantaged families, but that the disadvantages caused by prenatal stress can be mitigated by health-promoting behavior.

According to Scopus, Florencia Torche has an h-index of 20, according to Google Scholar one of 34 (as of August 2020). In 2020 she was elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences .

Web links

• Florencia Torche, Professor of Sociology , and curriculum vitae (PDF; 200 kB; as of June 2019) at Stanford University (stanford.edu)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Florencia Torche at academictree.org, accessed on August 9, 2020th
2. ↑ Torche, Florencia. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed August 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Florencia Torche. In: scholar.google.de. Google Scholar , accessed August 9, 2020 . 
4. ↑ New Members. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , April 23, 2020, accessed August 9, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Florencia Torche. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed August 9, 2020 .