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Ivar Berg, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology

Professor  Ivar Berg

Office: 256 McNeil Building
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Telephone: (215) 898-3515
Fax: (215) 573-2081
Email: ivberg@sas.upenn.edu
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Education:

1954  A.B., Magna Cum Laude, Political Science, Colgate University.

1954-55   Cultural Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway.

1959  Ph. D., Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Research:

  • Human Resources and Economic Welfare
  • Sociology of Labor and Industry
  • Job Creation and Crime
  • Status of "Group-Based" Rights

Selected Publications:

2003  Berg, Ivar
Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery
, is currently in press, to be republished together with a lengthy review of currently relevant data, and of a 'hallmark' civil rights case to which the book contributed, via Columbia Law School colleagues, in 1971. (Griggs vs Duke Power Company).

2002 Berg, Ivar
"Economics of Education" in D. L. Levinson et al., Education and Sociololgy: An Encyclopedia.

2001 Berg, Ivar
Sourcebook of Labor Markets: Evolving Sructures and Processes
, (with Arne Kalleberg) (eds) New York: Klewer and Plenum.

2001 Berg, Ivar
"Race and Stratification" in Anderson E. and Massey D. (eds) Problem of the Century, Russell Sage.

2001 Berg, Ivar
"Industrial Sociology" in N. Smelser, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier.

2001 Berg, Ivar
"Industrial Sociology" in Borgotta and Borgotta, The Encyclopedia of Sociology.

1998  Berg, Ivar
"Managing Corporate Organizations in Crises: Universities and Business Corporations in the 1960s", in Ronald Duska, Ed. Festschrift for Dr. Clarence Walton.

1995  Berg, Ivar
"Towards a Theory of Work" in F. Gamst, Theories of Work. Syracuse, N.Y.: University Press.

1992  Berg, Ivar
Introduction to Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Press.

1988 Berg, Ivar
Values and Value Theory in Twentieth Century America
, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (co-editor and contributor).

 

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