When was the person who wrote "Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study" born?
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Affirmative Action Around the World Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study is a 2004 nonfiction work by economist Thomas Sowell.
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Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell ( ; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, turned social theorist, political philosopher, and author.
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Jeffrey C. Alexander Jeffrey Charles Alexander (born May 30, 1947) is an American sociologist, one of the main proponents of Neofunctionalism, and a central figure in the contemporary school of Cultural Sociology referred to as the "Strong Program".
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Janice Stein Janice Gross Stein, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1943) is a Canadian political scientist and international relations expert. Stein is a specialist in Middle East area studies; negotiation theory; foreign policy decision-making; and international conflict management. She is the founder and former director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
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J. Philippe Rushton John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario who became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and other apparent racial variations. His book "Race, Evolution, and Behavior" (1995) is about the application of r/K selection theory to humans.
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Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen, CH, FBA (] ; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries.
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Joshua Aronson Joshua Michael Aronson is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is known for his pioneering work on stereotype threat, which he conducted in the 1990s along with Claude Steele and Steven Spencer. This work has shown that female, minority, and low-income children are stereotyped as performing worse on standardized tests, and that when they are taught to overcome these stereotypes, their standardized test scores improve. He also co-authored a study in 2009 in which he reported no evidence that African Americans' test scores had improved as a result of the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States the previous year.
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Jerry Taylor Jerome Cogburn "Jerry" Taylor (born August 2, 1962) is an American environmental activist and policy analyst.
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Ronald Stuart Burt Ronald Stuart Burt (born 1949) is an American sociologist and the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is most notable for his research and writing on social networks and social capital, particularly the concept of structural holes in a social network.
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Mary W. Gray Mary Lee Wheat Gray (born April 8, 1938) is an American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics, mathematics education, computer science, applied statistics, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom. She is currently on the Board of Advisers for POMED (Project on Middle East Democracy) and is the Chair of the Board of Directors of AMIDEAST (America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc.).
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Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl "Ken" Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a four-quadrant grid which suggests the synthesis of all human knowledge and experience.
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Stuart Nagel Stuart S. Nagel (August 29, 1934 – November 18, 2001) was an American academic. A Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he is notable for having coined the terms "super-optimizing" and "win-win analysis" and advancing the boundaries of policy studies.
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Emanuel Derman Emanuel Derman (born 1945) is a Jewish South African-born academic, businessman and writer. He is best known as a quantitative analyst, and author of the book "My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance".
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Anne Case Anne Catherine Case, Lady Deaton (born July 27, 1958) is an American economist who, since 1997, has been professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
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Steven J. Gold Steven James Gold (born 1955) is a sociologist involved in research on ethnic economies, international migration, the development of ethnic communities, visual sociology, and qualitative methods. Having served as President of the International Visual Sociology Association (1987–1990) and Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on International Migration (2003–2004), he is a Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Sociology
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Allan Bérubé Allan Bérubé (December 3, 1946 – December 11, 2007) was an American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and college drop-out, and award-winning author, best known for his research and writing about homosexual members of the American Armed Forces during World War II. He also wrote essays about the intersection of class and race in gay culture, and about growing up in a poor, working-class family, his French-Canadian roots, and about his experience of anti-AIDS activism.
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Gerald Bracey Gerald Watkins Bracey (August 12, 1940 – October 20, 2009) was an American education policy researcher. He is best known for the annual "Bracey Report" in which he analyzed current trends in education, often in opposition to prevailing educational policies of the day. The reports were published over a seventeen-year period. The last report was unfinished, and his colleagues at the National Education Policy Center conducted the final revisions and published it in November 2009.
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Jack Gibbs Jack Porter Gibbs (born August 26, 1927) is an American sociologist known for his work on social control theory and deterrence. In the early 1960s, he and Leonard Broom helped plan the founding of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which was founded in 1963. A 2015 book described Gibbs as "a giant of his time".
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Wilson A. Head Wilson A. Head (September 30, 1914 – October 7, 1993) was an American/Canadian sociologist and community planner known for his work in race relations, human rights and peace in the United States, Canada and other parts of the world.
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Jerome Davis (sociologist) Jerome Davis, born Jerome Dwight Davis (December 2, 1891–October 19, 1979), was an international activist for peace and social reform, labor organizer, and sociologist who founded Promoting Enduring Peace. Early in his life, he campaigned to reduce the workweek and as an advocate of organized labor.
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Carolyn Attneave Carolyn Attneave (July 2, 1920 – June 22, 1992) was born in El Paso, Texas to Scandinavian and Delaware Native American parents, she spent most of her childhood moving from one city to another. Her culturally aware upbringing would go on to influence her decision to research diversity. She earned a B.A. in English and Theatre at California State University in 1940. After spending some years as a school teacher, she earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1947 and 1952, respectively.
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Suzanne Bennett Johnson Suzanne Bennett Johnson (born February 8, 1948) is an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association (APA).