Additionally, he was a member of the National Research Council’s Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior. (2003). (2013), Anderson, Elijah and Nancy B. Hisrshinger, et al. Anderson is known most notably for his book, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999). He has served in an editorial capacity for a wide range of professional journals and special publications in his field, including Qualitative Sociology, Ethnography, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community, Annals of the Society of Political and Social Science, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. His most recent work is The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life.[10]. which he organized at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. All rights reserved, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University, 1976, Urban Inequality; Ethnography; Cultural Sociology; Social Deviance; Race Relations; Theory, at Yale University. Anderson is one of the nation’s leading urban ethnographers[2] and cultural theorists. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D from Northwestern University, where he was mentored by Howard S. Becker. Anderson received his B.A. Elijah Anderson is an American sociologist. Elijah Anderson (Auteur) An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America. Anderson is known most notably for his book, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999).[3]. Anderson, Elijah, and Doug Massey (eds.) In addition, Anderson has won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania,[11] and he was named the Robin M. Williams, Jr., Distinguished Lecturer for 1999-2000 by the Eastern Sociological Society. Anderson, Elijah (2001). (2001). Anderson, Elijah, and Luke Anderson (eds.) Anderson has written and edited numerous books, book chapters, articles, and scholarly reports on race in American cities. Elijah Anderson (* 1943 in Hermondale, Missouri) is an American sociologist. Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work. He has also served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the White House, the United States Congress, the National Academy of Science, and the National Science Foundation. He was appointed to the Max and Heidi Berry Term Chair in the Social Sciences in 1989,[1] to the Charles and William L. Day Professorship in 1991, and then to Distinguished Professor in 2001. [8] In 2008, he edited Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male],[9] which is based on a national conference, "Poor, Young, Black, and Male: A Case for National Action?" He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. In August 2017, in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Anderson argued that Confederate monuments "really impact the psyche of black people. Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. [12] In 2006, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Northwestern University. “Urban Ethnography,” in N.J. Smelser and P.B. He holds the Sterling Professorship of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University, where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. A Message from the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Application to Transfer Credit from Outside Yale, Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI), Center for Historical Enquiry & The Social Sciences (CHESS), Initiative on Religion, Politics, & Society, Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS), Inner-City Schools: Inequality and Urban Education, Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male, The Devolution of the Inner-City High School, From the iconic ghetto
to the cosmopolitan and beyond, he Sociological Theory That Explains Trump’s Assumption That All Black Citizens Live in the ‘Inner City, What caused the Ferguson riot exists in so many other cities, too, Emmett and Trayvon: How racial prejudice in America has changed in the last sixty years, The Cosmopolitan Canopy,” Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries”, A Case-Control Study of Female-Female Non-Intimate Violence in an Urban Area, Going Straight: The Story of a Young Inner-City Ex-convict. ., 2003). (2017). His most prominent works include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999),[5] winner of the 2000 Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society,[6] Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology,[7] and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men. "[13], American Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals of the Society of Political and Social Science, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, "Distinguished Sociologist Elijah Anderson Joins Yale Faculty", "Q&A: Award-winning urban ethnographer Elijah Anderson on illuminating issues that affect the world", "Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male", "The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life", "Trump says it is 'foolish' to remove Confederate symbols", Yale University, Department of Sociology Faculty Page, Yale University, Office of Public Affairs and Communication, https://web.archive.org/web/20160211133445/http://elijahanderson.com/Home.html, Distinguished Sociologist Elijah Anderson Joins Yale Faculty, A review of Elijah Anderson, "The Code of the Street,", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elijah_Anderson&oldid=983383684, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 23:09. His publications include. Anderson is one of the nation’s leading urban ethnographers and cultural theorists. Baltes (eds. Elijah Anderson (* 1943 in Hermondale, Missouri) is an American sociologist. (2004). Anderson has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and as vice-president of the American Sociological Association. He has also served as Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College, Princeton University, and Ecole des Etudes Hautes en Science Sociales in Paris, France. Anderson served for many years as the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania,[4] with a secondary appointment in the Wharton School; in 2008, he was awarded the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.