Christopher Jencks

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1. Christopher Jencks

   Author of Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass, Inequality; a reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America, The Black-White Test Score Gap

2. William Julius Wilson

   Author of When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, The Declining Significance of Race : Blacks and Changing American Institutions

3. Ralf Dahrendorf

   Author of Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society

4. David Tyack

   Author of Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform, The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education

5. C. Wright Mills

   Author of The Sociological Imagination, White Collar: The American Middle Classes

6. Alvin Ward Gouldner

   Author of The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology

7. Pitirim A. Sorokin

   Author of Social and cultural mobility

8. Max Weber

   Author of Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (2 volume set), The Methodology Of The Social Sciences

9. Gary Orfield

   Author of Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education

10. Prudence L. Carter

    Author of Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Co

11. Paul E. Peterson

    Author of No Child Left Behind?: The Politics and Practice of School Accountability

12. John C. Loehlin

    Author of Latent Variable Models: An Introduction to Factor, Path, and Structural Analysis

13. Talcott Parsons

    Author of The structure of social action; a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers

14. Mark Granovetter

    Author of Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers

15. John E. Chubb

    Author of Politics, Markets and America's Schools

16. Ann Arnett Ferguson

    Author of Bad Boys

17. Laurence R. Veysey

    Author of The Emergence of the American University

18. Laurence Steinberg

    Author of Beyond the Classroom

19. Paul Thomas Hill

    Author of It Takes a City: Getting Serious About Urban School Reform

20. Samuel Bowles

    Author of Democracy and Capitalism: Property, Community, and the Contradictions of Modern Social Thought