(Sociology, June 2000)
Thesis Title: Saving Four Corners: Religion and Revitalization in an Inner City Neighborhood
Committee: Christopher Winship (Chair), William Julius Wilson, Nancy Ammerman
Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
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Research Interests: Political Economy; Urban Sociology; Economic Geography; Social Impacts of Economic and Climatic Change; Poverty and Inequality; Work, Labor Markets and the Labor Process; Social Theory; Comparative Sociology.
Daniel Alain Evrard is a...
Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal...
Professors Robert Sampson and Joscha Legewie are organizing the “Urban Theory and Data Lab” to support research by students and postdocs examining the urban condition in the 21st century. The emphasis is on the active discussion of theoretical and...
"The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they—as well as community leaders and all concerned...
Research Interests: Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations; Urban Sociology; Social Policy.
William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the...
