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New Books by Our Faculty:
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (University of Chicago Press, 2012) by Robert J. Sampson.
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Belknap/Harvard, 2011) by Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II research professor of the social sciences emeritus. This book is recipient of the Gelber Prize (see Harvard Gazette article of February 27, 2012.
Myth of the Volcano: Perceptions of Injustice in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press, 2010); One Counry, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequailty in Contemporary China (Harvard Contemporary China Series 16) edited by Martin K. Whyte (Harvard University Press, 2010).
NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, 2010) by Tamara Kay.
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age, by Mary C. Waters (with Jennifer Holdaway, Philip Kasinitz, and John Mollenkopf)
received the ASA Distinguished Book Award for 2010. The award will be presented at the ASA meetings in Atlanta this summer. The book also received the 2009 Mirra Komarovsky Award for the best book, awarded by the Eastern Sociological Society at their annual meeting in Baltmore. (Please see the article in The New York Times and the NPR interview).
"What makes a successful society?" (Harvard Gazette, October 16, 2009) highlights co-edited volume of essays by Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Matter for Health (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives is new book by Nicholas Christakis and James H. Fowler. For more information including video of the authors, visit www.connectedthebook.com. Their research was a feature article in the New York Times magazine of September 13. See "Are Your Friends Making You Fat?"
Frank Dobbin's book, Inventing Equal Opportunity, is featured in the August 4, 2009 issue of the Harvard Crimson. Read Prof. Dobbin's blog featured in the July 28, 2009 issue of "Today's Workplace" here.
William Julius Wilson's book More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (W.W. Norton & Co., 2009) was reviewed by Richard Thompson Ford "Why the Poor Stay Poor" (New York Times, March 6, 2009) and by Sudhir Venkatesch "How to Understand the Culture of Poverty" ( Slate, March 16, 2009). Wilson and Sudhir Venkatesh were interviewed on NPR's "Talk of the Nation (heard on NPR March 23, 2009) about The Culture of Poverty.
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research (Analytical Methods for Social Research)
by Stephen L. Morgan and Christopher Winship (Cambridge, University Press, 2007)
A review of Michèle Lamont's book How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2009) was published in the March 4th on-line issue of Inside Higher Ed. See : The 'Black Box' of Peer Review. The book is also featured in a March 31, 2009 article available at the National Science Foundation website, along with a video interview. Please also see "Reviewing the Reviewers", in the April 3, 2009 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University hosted a discussion with Michèle Lamont that can be heard here.
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Updated: March 6, 2012
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