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Sixth Annual Moynihan Prize Ceremony held in Washington DC
William Julius Wilson Receives 2013 Moynihan Prize
The Academy’s sixth annual Moynihan Prize Ceremony was held in Washington, DC, on the evening of May 9, 2013. William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, received the 2013 prize. Wilson was introduced by Douglas Massey, president of AAPSS and Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
Earlier in the day on May 9, Wilson gave the inaugural…
April 26 Congressional Briefing on Social Surveys and Statistics
Policy Makers & Businesses Need Reliable Information and Data: The Impact of Falling Response Rates to Social Surveys and What Can Be Done. Sponsored by Senator Jay Rockefeller and Congressmen Chaka Fattah and Charles Dent. Friday, April 26, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM, Capitol Visitors Center room SVC 209-08
Organized by AAPSS in collaboration with the Annie E Casey Foundation, the Russell Sage foundation, Sage publications and the NRC’s Committee on National Statistics, the briefing reviewed the state of…
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Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged: The Role of Systems, Institutions, and Organizations
Special Editors: Mario L. Small and Scott W. Allard
Over the last 25 years, social science on urban poverty has grappled primarily with evidence of deindustrialization and the loss of low-skilled manufacturing jobs. In turn, structural economic change has transformed family structure, educational attainment, crime, and geographic concentration of the poor. Researchers have approached these issues from a limited set…
Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia: School, Work, and Family Life
Special Editors: Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Cheryll Alipio, and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.
Occurring between adolescence and adulthood, “early adulthood” is now recognized among scholars and social observers as an emergent life stage in the Western world. Marked by later entry into the labor force, more time spent in the parental home (or a return to it after a period…