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    Why America is Polarized

    Why America is Polarized

    October 13, 2013

    CNN: Fareed Zakaria GPS
    With guest Vanessa Williamson, Ph.D. candidate in Government and Social Policy.

    Mario Luis Small

    Q + A with Mario Luis Small

    April 1, 2014

    Harvard Colloquy | Mario Luis Small (Ph.D. '01)
    Within the isolation of the nation's poorest neighborhoods, a sociologist gets to the heart of inequality.

    Jasmin Sethi

    Jasmin Sethi

    JD and PhD in Economics, 2007.
    CEO and Founder, Sethi Clarity Advisers.
    CEO and Cofounder, BuildUp Capital.
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    Patrick Sharkey

    Patrick Sharkey

    PhD in Sociology and Social Policy, 2007.
    Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University.


    Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, Columbia University, 2007-2009.

    Uneasy Peace, by Patrick SharkeyPatrick Sharkey's second book,Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence, has been published by W.W. Norton (2018).

    Winner of the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015.

    Straus Fellow, Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, NYU School of Law, 2013-2014.

    Stuck in PlacePatrick Sharkey's first book, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality, has been published by the University of Chicago Press (2013).

    Winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015.

    Winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2014.

    Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society, 2013.

    Winner of The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Sociology and Social Work, 2013.

    Patrick Sharkey has been named one of four new William T. Grant Scholars, 2010-2015. The program identifies and supports promising early-career researchers in the behavioral and social sciences with five-year research awards.

    Winner of the Roger Gould Prize for berst article ("The Intergenerational Transmission of Context") published in the American Journal of Sociology, 2010.

    Co-winner of the Jane Addams Award for best article ("The Intergenerational Transmission of Context") published in urban sociology, Communithy and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2010.

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    Who cares? : Public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age
    Newman, Katherine S, and Elisabeth S Jacobs. 2010. Who cares? : Public ambivalence and government activism from the New Deal to the second gilded age. Princeton, N.J. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010. Abstract

    "Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. This evidence, some of it little known, reveals a much darker, more impatient attitude toward the poor, the unemployed, and the dispossessed during the 1930s and 1960s. Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs show that some of the social policies that Americans take for granted today suffered from declining public support just a few years after their inception. Yet Americans have been equally unenthusiastic abotu efforts to dismantle social programs once their are established. Again contrary to popular belief, conservative Republicans had little public support in the 1980s and 1990s for their efforts to unravel the progressive heritage of the New Deal and the Great Society. Whether creating or rolling back such programs, leaders like Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan often found themselves working against public opposition, and they left lasting legacies only by persevering despite it.""Timely and surprising, Who Cares? demonstrates not that Americans are callous but that they are frequently ambivalent about public support for the poor. It also suggests that presidential leadership requires bold action, regardless of opinion polls."--Jacket.

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-210) and index.

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