Interview with Kenneth Prewitt: The need to treat federal statistics as part of the nation’s scientific infrastructure

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Kenneth Prewitt, former director of the U.S. Census and Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia... Read More Interview with Kenneth Prewitt: The need to treat federal statistics as part of the nation’s scientific infrastructure

William Julius Wilson: How Cultural and Structural Forces Interact

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In his May 2010 Annals article, William Julius Wilson addresses the question of why both social structure and... Read More William Julius Wilson: How Cultural and Structural Forces Interact

Mario Small: Defining policy through evidence not preconceptions

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University of Chicago Sociology Professor Mario Small discusses the changes in attitudes toward poverty in... Read More Mario Small: Defining policy through evidence not preconceptions

Michele Lamont: The need to engineer policies so the poor are not stigmatized

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Can policy-makers move beyond the notion that the poor have wrong values that influence their life choices... Read More Michele Lamont: The need to engineer policies so the poor are not stigmatized

David Harding: Understanding what it is like as a poor person in this country

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For a long time, says David Harding, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, culture... Read More David Harding: Understanding what it is like as a poor person in this country

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty: A Congressional Briefing

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On May 13, 2010, a Congressional Briefing was held at the Capitol Visitor's Center in Washington, DC, with... Read More Reconsidering Culture and Poverty: A Congressional Briefing

Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

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What is the role of culture in poverty? Sociologists David Harding, Michèle Lamont, Mario Small (editors),... Read More Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

Interview with Douglas Massey: Measuring the effects of US policy on Latin American migration patterns

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The following podcast features an interview conducted by Stephanie Marudas with Douglas Massey.... Read More Interview with Douglas Massey: Measuring the effects of US policy on Latin American migration patterns

Amy Jordan: Striking Down Childhood Obesity

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The following podcast features an interview conducted by Stephanie Marudas with Amy Jordan about the current... Read More Amy Jordan: Striking Down Childhood Obesity

The End of Television?

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Is television dead? The classic television era of the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by limited choices of... Read More The End of Television?

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