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	William Julius Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is a significant American sociologist.
		In The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987), Wilson was one of the first to enunciate at length the "spatial mismatch" theory for the development of a ghetto underclass.
		Wilson was an original board member of the progressive Century Institute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Julius_Wilson (234 words)

	William Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Wilson, member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1815-19.
		William Wilson (1844-?), a writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo.
		William Wilson is a sailor in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Wilson (297 words)

	First Measured Century: Interview: William Julius Wilson
		William Julius Wilson is a University Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
		WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: It's interesting that when people talk about the controversies surrounding the Moynihan Report, they fail to realize that he wrote a speech for President Johnson, which was presented at Howard University, a commencement speech, two months before the Moynihan Report was released.
		WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON: Single-parent families, family break-ups in the fl community are problematic because of the impact on children, and that's the main thing.
	www.pbs.org /fmc/interviews/wilson.htm (3368 words)

	William Julius Wilson Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilson's books also include "Racism and Privilege" and “The Truly Disadvantaged." In a recent interview, Wilson discussed his belief that the rebirth of America's cities is dependent on the government playing an active role in reshaping the economy.
		William Julius Wilson: There is certainly much less compassion for the poor than there used to be, especially for the minority poor There is a dominant belief system in America that somehow the poor are responsible for their own plight, because of lack of initiative or personal problems or inadequacies.
		Wilson: People who are still in the labor force have benefited from the drop in unemployment during the current period of economic recovery.
	goodfelloweb.com /werbe/william.htm (2148 words)

	William Julius Wilson discusses ghetto joblessness
		Wilson was the opening speaker Sunday at a symposium titled "American Society: Diversity and Consensus," honoring another heavyweight sociologist, Cornell's Robin M. Williams Jr., the Henry Scarborough Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus.
		Wilson's lecture followed a discussion of Williams' life and contributions by Peter I. Rose, Cornell alumnus and professor of sociology and anthropology at Smith College.
		Wilson believes public policy discussions of welfare reform and family values should be couched in the context of these factors.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/10.24.96/Wilson_lecture.html (663 words)

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		Wilson does touch on the transferability of a unique inner city culture but according to critics, he falls short of clearly explaining the depth and permanence of any self-destructive or delinquent pathology, that which is manifested in high crime rates and the type of collective social disunity that leads to further isolation, stigma and anomie.
		William Julius Wilson has made a mark on studies of inner city culture, using deindustrialization as starting context for his explanations of why inner city families have been shaped according to the unforgiving bounds of concentrated poverty.
		Finally, in reviewing the work of William Julius Wilson, one must realize his unique role in urban and criminological social research because he is yet alive, physically and mentally capable of facing the test of time as the urban landscape changes and as the inner city both evolves and devolves.
	www.criminology.fsu.edu /crimtheory/drafts/Wilson_draft.doc (5403 words)

	CURP: Center for Urban and Regional Policy
		William Julius Wilson's study remains the most eloquent and tightly argued analysis of this great dilemma of family, community, race, and class.
		One of the many merits of William Julius Wilson's study is its sensitive and powerful argument that cultural and economic structures matter.
		Wilson's analysis does not completely fit the Boston experience, but there are plenty of isolated communities in Boston's inner city and in nearby communities like Chelsea, Lynn, Lawrence, Lowell, Worcester, and Brockton.
	www.curp.neu.edu /sitearchive/staffpicks.asp?id=1110 (880 words)

	frontline: the two nations of black america: interview with william julius wilson
		WILSON: See a lot of people back then felt that we would be free by '93 or '83 or '73 just by removing racial barriers.
		WILSON: Actually though, Skip, I would say that you have a kind of professional middleclass group, and then you have what we call sort of the underclass.
		WILSON: Well, a lot of it has to do with our understanding of the way that the world works and we still have a lot of educating to do.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/wilson.html (2550 words)

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		Wilson contends that this decline was due to the lack of effective, locally available job training and education, as well as the erosion of government and private support of local organizations that once supplied employment information as well as job opportunities.
		Wilson deconstructs the conservative argument and current popular opinion that ghetto dwellers lack drive and aspiration by interweaving his book with the voices of many urban women and men who were interviewed during years of critical study.
		Wilson advocates a system of national performance standards for schools, with a methodology of ensuring that schools that are resource-poor and disadvantaged have the opportunity to receive the necessary training and resources to meet the national demands.
	www.msu.edu /~hicksmi3/wilsonessay.html (755 words)

	99-067 (William Julius Wilson) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.
		In it, Wilson argues that as long as middle- and working-class groups are fragmented along racial lines, they will fail to see how their combined efforts could change the political imbalance and promote policies that reflect their interests.
		A MacArthur Prize Fellow from 1987 to 1992, Wilson is past president of the American Sociological Association and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Education.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/1999-00/99-067.html (363 words)

	Smart Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilson notes that the overwhelmingly fl "Bronzeville" neighborhoods of Douglas, Grand Boulevard, and Washington Park have experienced dramatic increases in children and the elderly relative to the prime-age workforce (ages 20-64) since 1950.
		Wilson argues that as the population drops, basic neighborhood institutions are harder to maintain.
		Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson relied on data collected during the course of 3 research projects conducted at the Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago, which have been integrated with census-type information and research from other scholars.
	www.poverty.smartlibrary.org /NewInterface/segment.cfm?segment=1847 (664 words)

	Teachers' Domain: William Julius Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this 1998 interview from FRONTLINE's "The Two Nations of Black America," Harvard sociologist Dr. William Julius Wilson examines the economic disparities among African Americans and explains why, despite an overall increase in the standard of living, a segment of the population is falling farther and farther behind.
		Wilson argues that some minorities have the resources they need to compete effectively in society - financial means, access to good schools, family stability, peer groups, and so on.
		According to Wilson, the next phase of the civil rights struggle is for economic equality, and can be achieved by implementing work programs modeled after Depression-era projects, universal health care, national child care, national education standards, improvements in public transportation, and job training programs.
	www.teachersdomain.org /9-12/soc/ush/civil/wilson (782 words)

	Smart Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to William Julius Wilson, professor of sociology at Harvard University, earlier generations of inner-city fl men were much more likely to marry the mothers of their children than they are today.
		Wilson observes that Chicago's African-American men born in the 1940s were twice as likely to marry their pregnant partners than fl men born in the 1950s or later.
		William Julius Wilson uses census materials to measure the growth of single parent families living in the U.S. between 1960 and 1993.
	www.poverty.smartlibrary.org /NewInterface/segment.cfm?segment=1818&question_id=11578&from_segment=1787 (862 words)

	The Bridge over the Racial Divide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		By unveiling the inextricable interplay between ethnicity and class, Wilson established a paradigm for the study of racial relations at the end of the century as original as that of W. Du Bois at the beginning.
		Wilson argues that as long as middle- and working-class groups are fragmented along racial lines, they will fail to see how their combined efforts could change the political imbalance and thus promote policies that reflect their interests.
		William Julius Wilson, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8847.html (1128 words)

	BGSU -- News --Harvard professor and BGSU graduate William Julius Wilson is visiting scholar
		“Wilson is at the epicenter of the debate about race relations and welfare reform in America,” according to Dr. Michael Martin, chair of the BGSU ethnic studies department.
		Wilson is also the author of “The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics,” published in 1999 by the University of California Press.
		Wilson’s visits are sponsored by the Office of the President and the Department of Ethnic Studies, in conjunction with the Department of Sociology, the American culture studies program and the Office of Equity, Diversity and Immigration Services.
	www.bgsu.edu /offices/pr/news/2002/Jan02/scholar.html (755 words)

	The Truly Disadvantaged : The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		Mr Wilson says conservative writers such as Charles Murray are incorrect when they proclaim that because poverty rates were as high in the 1980's as they were in the 1960's, the Great Society programs were failures.
		There was significant new material brought forward by Mr Wilson and the focus was on an objective assessment of cause; not on ascribing blame to racism, culture, or government policy.
		Since Wilson wrote this over 20 years ago, the original economic problems are now massively compounded by precisely the kind of social problems he at least in part predicted.
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	Joblessness in the Inner-City
		According to William Julius Wilson, a professor of social policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Wilson says that changes in the economy, cuts in social spending, urban flight, racism, and other factors have lead to a sharp decline in employment among inner city African Americans.
		Wilson, a leading African American scholar and past president of the American Sociological Association, spoke in Berkeley, California in September of that year.
		William Julius Wilson, a professor of social policy at Harvard University speaking about his book, "When Work Disappears, The World of the New Urban Poor." We'll have more of his speech in a few moments.
	www.radioproject.org /archive/1998/9831.html (3883 words)

	NFG Reports
		Wilson’s term “new public dialogue” is illustrated in his analysis of the changing demand for labor in the United States.
		After a lucid exposition on affirmative action, Wilson cogently concludes that it is possible — by shifting emphasis from numeric guidelines (which connote to many preferential results, quotas, lowering standards and reverse discrimination) to notions of increasing opportunity by way of a more flexible, merit-based criteria of evaluation.
		Wilson freshens Rustin’s vision to the moment and strengthens it with the weight of his research, logic and reputation.
	www.nfg.org /reports/73bridge.htm (1245 words)

	William Julius Wilson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Wilson was educated at Wilberforce University (B.A., 1958) and Bowling Green State University (M.A., 1961) in Ohio, as well as at Washington State University (Ph.D., 1966).
		We know now that welfare reform works." American sociologist William Julius Wilson, however, would be one of the first to disagree, even though he had helped shape much of Clinton's social policy since 1992 as his unofficial adviser.
		The tragedy of Julius Caesar, a five-act play by William Shakespeare, dramatizes the death in 44 BC of the celebrated Roman general and statesman.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9002996?tocId=9002996 (691 words)

	Faculty - William Julius Wilson to Join Kennedy School Faculty
		Wilson, currently the Lucy Flower University Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Chicago, will join the Kennedy School faculty in time for the fall 1996 semester and will be part of the Kennedy School's Wiener Center for Social Policy.
		Wilson will also be a voting member of the Department of Afro-American Studies, a member of the Advisory Board of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, and will hold an affiliation with Harvard's Department of Sociology.
		Wilson is currently director of the Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago's I.B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /ksgpress/ksg_news/announcemts/wilson.htm (586 words)

	WILSON
		William Julius Wilson brings us back from the edge of the city to its center, especially to its older and poorer neighborhoods.
		Wilson's work is somewhat controversial because of his emphasis on poverty rather than racism as a cause of our social ills.
		If Wilson is right about the differences between poor and composite neighborhoods, this difference between the Black poor and White poor nationally is very significant because opportunity is so much greater in composite neighborhoods.
	www.wittenberg.edu /academics/reli/wcopeland/WILSON.htm (4210 words)

	Amazon.com: When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor: Books: William Julius Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilson (The Truly Disadvantaged) sees a direct link between growing joblessness and what he calls ghetto-related behavior and attitudes?fatherless children born out of wedlock, drugs, crime, gang violence, hopelessness?but unlike those who blame a "culture of poverty," he emphasizes that structural changes can effect a turnaround.
		Mr Wilson states that the inner cities have seen the disappearance of unskilled factory jobs; the low wage economy was characterized by stable fl neighborhoods, and even with low pay, the situation was sustainable.
		Wilson's argument is that the global economic reorginization that has taken place over the last thirty years has significantly decreased the number of manufacturing jobs available to unskilled workers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679724176?v=glance (3182 words)

	Wilberforce University - Faculty News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Among those receiving the award with Julius Wilson were the surgeon who completed the first U.S. heart transplant and a developer of the Hubbell Space Telescope.
		One of only 17 of Harvard University's 2,200 professors to hold a specially-named professorship, Wilson was selected for his research, publication and teaching on the forces that cause and sustain inner-city poverty.
		Much of Wilson's research has been done in Chicago's South Side near the University of Chicago, where he taught for 24 years before going to Harvard in 1996.
	www.wilberforce.edu /opencms/export/bulldog/news/faculty_02.html (182 words)

	William Julius Wilson
		While Wilson takes great pains to articulate the importance of race on urban poverty, his studies highlight the devastating effects of increased joblessness.
		For Wilson, ghetto pathologies are the result of jobless poverty, not the cause of it.
		In June, Wilson, newly arrived at Harvard after 24 years at the University of Chicago with its tradition of urban social research, was named one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/1996/09/early.html (1864 words)

	William Wilson's Profile at Harvard University
		William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor.
		A sociologist with a PhD from Washington State University, Wilson is a MacArthur Prize Fellow and the recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science.
		Liebow, Elliot, William Julius Wilson, and Charles Lemert.
	ksgfaculty.harvard.edu /William_Wilson (323 words)

	Commentary Magazine - When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Using the ghettos of Chicago as his laboratory, Wilson showed in The Declining Significance of Race that for fls who succeeded in acquiring basic skills, there were fewer and fewer barriers to higher education, upwardly mobile careers, and integration into American society.
		...IN 1978, William Julius Wilson, then a little-known sociologist at the University of Chicago, stirred an intellectual furor with The Declining Significance of Race, a book arguing that social class was becoming more important than racial discrimination in determining the prospects of fls in American society...
		...Wilson allows that "ghettorelated culture and behavior" will diminish only "gradually," and that for some of the unemployed, the temptations of alcohol or drugs will defeat even the staunchest efforts to turn them into productive workers...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V102I5P60-1.htm (1605 words)

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