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Elijah Anderson, Ph.D.
The Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor
of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology

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Professor Elijah Anderson

Department of Sociology
Yale University
140 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520

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Email: elijah.anderson@yale.edu

Alternate Website(s): http://www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/pages/anderson/

Education:

1969  B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

1972  M.A., University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, Chicago, IL

1976  Ph.D., Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, Evanston, IL

Research:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Urban Inequality
  • Interactional Social Psychology
  • Race Relations
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Deviance and Social Control

Selected Publications:

Anderson, Elijah (ed.) (2008). Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. Penn Press.

Anderson, Elijah (2003). A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men, (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Anderson, Elijah, and Doug Massey (eds.) (2001). Problem Of The Century: Racial Stratification In The United States. California: Sage Publications.

Anderson, Elijah (1999). Code Of The Street: Decency, Violence and The Moral Life Of The Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton.

Anderson, Elijah (1990). Streetwise: Race, Class, And Change In An Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Anderson, Elijah, Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones (eds.) (2004) Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries.(The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) Sage Press 595(September).

Anderson, Elijah and Tukufu Zuberi (eds.) (2000). The Study of African American Problems: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Agenda, Then and Now (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) Sage Press 568(March).

 

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