This autobiographical essay reflects on my sociological career, highlighting
the integration of sociology with social policy. I discuss the…
The Wire is set in a modern American city shaped by economic restructuring
and fundamental demographic change that led to widespread job…
James M. Quane and William Julius Wilson describe the promising results of the
Harlem Children’s Zone, why the current backlash against the…
The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue.
Children are among the most…
This article examines the conceptual, measurement, and regulatory challenges of promoting decent work for domestic workers. After a brief…
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks
and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years
ago, in 1978. Given the furor…
Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations…