University Professor; Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. 1969, Harvard University; B.A. 1964 (with special honors), University of Chicago.

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Research Interests:

Urban sociology; art/music; family; history of ideas; and history of the body.

Fellowships/Honors:

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996- ; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, 1996- ; Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft Professor, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, 1991

Selected Works:

The Corrosion of Character, W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization, W.W.Norton, 1994.
The Fall of Public Man, Knopf, 1977.

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