CPRC is happy to announce its next seminar, which will occur tomorrow on Thursday, October 29th.
Claude Fischer, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will present work entitled,
"The Rising and Falling of Americans’ Personal Security, 1650-2009”
12:00-1:30pm
Room 1109, School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Avenue @ 122nd St.
Lunch will be served. Reservations required by emailing cprc@columbia.edu.
Claude S. Fischer is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2009-10, he is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Most of his early research focused on the social psychology of urban life and on social networks, both coming together in To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City (1982). In more recent decades, he completed a study of the telephone's place in social life, America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 (1992); and wrote a book with five Berkeley colleagues, Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (1996). Most recently, Fischer co-authored one social historical book, Fischer and Hout, Century of Difference: How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (2006) and authored a new one, Made in American: A Social History of American Culture and Character (Chicago, Feb. 2010) which analyzes social and cultural change since the colonial era. Fischer also founded Contexts, the American Sociological Association's magazine of sociology for the general reader, and was its executive editor through 2004.