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Elijah Anderson (born
1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 � ...
in Hermondale,
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) is an American sociologist. He is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at
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,"Elijah Anderson"
at
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.
where he teaches and directs the Urban Ethnography Project. Anderson is one of the nation's leading urban
ethnographer Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...
s and
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s. Anderson is known most notably for his book, ''Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City'' (1999).


Early life

Anderson received his B.A. from
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, his M.A. from the
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and his Ph.D. from
Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...
, where he was mentored by Howard S. Becker.


Career

Anderson worked as an assistant professor of sociology at
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(1973–1975). In 1975, he joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty where he rose to associate professor in 1981, and to full professor in 1988. He was appointed to the Max and Heidi Berry Term Chair in the Social Sciences in 1989, to the Charles and William L. Day Professorship in 1991, and then to Distinguished Professor in 2001. Anderson served for many years as the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the
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, with a secondary appointment in the
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; in 2008, he was awarded the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as visiting professor at Swarthmore College,
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, and ''Ecole des Etudes Hautes en Science Sociales'' in
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,
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. Anderson has written and edited numerous books, book chapters, articles, and scholarly reports on race in American cities. His most prominent works include ''Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City'' (1999), winner of the 2000 Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society
''Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community ''(1990)
winner of the
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’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology, and the classic sociological work, ''A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men''. In 2008, he edited ''Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male''], which is based on a national conference, "Poor, Young, Black, and Male: A Case for National Action?" which he organized at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. His most recent work is ''The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life''. In addition, Anderson has won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was named the Robin M. Williams Jr., Distinguished Lecturer for 1999–2000 by the Eastern Sociological Society."Robin Murphy Williams, Jr."
at American Sociological Society.
In 2006, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Northwestern University. Anderson has served on the board of directors of the
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and as vice-president of the American Sociological Association. He has served in an editorial capacity for a wide range of professional journals and special publications in his field, including '' Qualitative Sociology'',
Ethnography
',
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,
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City & CommunityAnnals of the Society of Political and Social Science
', and the
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
. He has also served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the
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, the
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, the
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, and the
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. Additionally, he was a member of th
National Research Council’sPanel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior


Confederate statues

In August 2017, in the wake of the
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in
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, Anderson argued that Confederate monuments "really impact the psyche of black people."


Selected publications

*''The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life'' (2011, W.W. Norton) *''Against the Wall: Poor, Black, and Male'' (editor, 2008) *''A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men'' (2nd ed., 2003) *''Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States'' (co-editor with D. Massey, 2001) *''Code of the street: Decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner city''. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999, pp. 150–154, . *''Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community'' (1990) * ''Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries''. From series ''
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'', 595 (September) (co-editor with Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones, 2004) *''The Study of African American Problems: W.E.B. Du Bois's Agenda, Then and Now''. From series ''The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science'', 568 (March) (co-editor with Tukufu Zuberi, 2000).


References


External links


Yale University, Department of Sociology Faculty PageYale University, Office of Public Affairs and Communication
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Sociology Faculty: Elijah Anderson

A review of Elijah Anderson, "The Code of the Street,"
The Wagner Review, Spring 1999. {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Elijah Living people Indiana University Bloomington alumni University of Chicago alumni Northwestern University alumni Yale University faculty Yale Sterling Professors University of Pennsylvania faculty American sociologists 1943 births Winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology