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Elijah Anderson, PhD

Affiliated Faculty, Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania ; William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University

University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone: 215-898-6967
E-mail: eanderson@sas.upenn.edu
Website: http://www.yale.edu/sociology/faculty/pages/anderson/

Biography

Yale University Information

Yale University
P.O. Box 208265
New Haven, CT 06520-8265

Yale E-mail: elijah.anderson@yale.edu

Elijah Anderson who has taught in the Organizational Dynamics graduate studies program since 1987, was formerly was formerly the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences in the Sociology Department of the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Philadelphia Ethnography Project. His research and teaching are in the social psychology of organizations and field methods of social research and social interaction. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University.

Research

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

  • 2004 Anderson, E. "A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men," 2nd edition, including a new preface and appendix, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  • 2004 Anderson, E. and Fay Allard. "Ethnography, Examples of Social Science Methods Used in," with Fay Allard, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL MEASUREMENT, 2004.

  • 2004 Anderson, E. "The Cosmopolitan Canopy." ANNALS OF THE AMRICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, September 2004.

  • 2002 Anderson, E. "The Car Wash," in Ethnography.

  • 2000 Anderson, E. "The Emerging Philadelphia African American Class Structure," in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Special Editors: Elijah Anderson and Tukufu Zuberi, The Study of African American Problems: W.E.B. Dubois’s Agenda, Then and Now, Volume 568.

  • 1999 Anderson, E. "The Social Situation of the Black Executive: Black and White Identities in the Corporate World," in Michele Lamont (ed.), The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  • 1999 Anderson, E. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  • 1990 Anderson, E. The Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton.

  • 1978 Anderson, E. A Place in the Corner: A study of Black Street Corner Men. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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