In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the…
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more…
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A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the
opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.…
This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based…
In sharp contrast to many earlier studies, the articles in this symposium encompass a careful discussion of the two major underlying themes…
Although an accurate estimate of how the poverty rate has changed since 1964 would show that we are much closer to achieving President…
Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and…
In his 1965 report on the black family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlighted the rising fraction of black children growing up in households…
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe…
Alice Goffman’s book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is one of those rare publications by a sociologist that creates an…