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NEUGARTEN, Bernice was born on February 11, 1916 in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of David L. Levin and Sadie (nee Segall) Levin.
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Social Status in the City presents a scientific method for measuring social status in urban settings—the Index of Urban Status (IUS). The authors show how the index and the concepts of status on which it is based were derived by describing the procedures used in studying the social structure of a particular Midwestern city. Richard P. Coleman modified the IUS when he was employed in commerce research studies of social class phenomena in American cities. A social class is a group of people who are judged by members of the community as equal to one another in social prestige. They are believed to be either superior or inferior in prestige and acceptability to other groups who constitute the social classes that are below or above them. By this definition, Yankee City, Deep South, Jonesville, Kansas City—and presumably every community in the U.S.—can all be described as having social class systems. This book is a case study aimed at larger theoretical importance. The study should be considered in the context of sociology’s concerns with problems of urban stratification, the characteristics of various social class groups, and the ways these groups change over time. In this context, the book makes a contribution to social science methods as well as observation. The authors have followed in the tradition of W. Lloyd Warner and others who have attempted to understand the status structures of whole communities. This classic volume has brilliantly stood the test of time.
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Social Status in the City is the first study to analyze the status structure in a large city (Kansas City, population around a million) and to adapt methods heretofore used only in studies of small communities. It offers for the first time anywhere a systematic method for measuring social status in large urban settings: the Index of Urban Status. This book makes two significant contributions to the understanding of urban life. One is the unique and highly useful Index of Urban Status. The other is a benchmark description of the status hierarchy of a large American city at mid-decade, in terms of the views and values not of the investigators but of the city's residents themselves. This study is the only one of a city of this size in which the images and opinions of the city's inhabitants were the primary evidence on the social status divisions. It characterizes all these perceptions in terms of major demographic variables and indicates the degree of vertical mobility from one generation to the next within this status system. The final chapters compare the Kansas City findings with those of class studies of eight communities across the nation to see how local status systems fit into a nationwide hierarchy.
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NEUGARTEN, Bernice was born on February 11, 1916 in Norfolk, Nebraska, United States. Daughter of David L. Levin and Sadie (nee Segall) Levin.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, 1936; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1943; Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Southern California, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Catholic U., Nijmegen, 1988.
Research associate, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, 1948-1950;
assistant professor, University of Chicago, 1951-1960;
associate professor, University of Chicago, 1960-1964;
professor, University of Chicago, 1964-1980;
chairman, University of Chicago, 1969-1973;
professor social service administration, University of Chicago, 1978-1980;
member commission on policy studies, University of Chicago, 1979-1980;
Rothschild distinguished scholar, professor emeritus, University of Chicago, since 1988;
retired, University of Chicago, 1994;
professor emerita, Northwestern University, 1980-1988. Member of council University of Chicago Senate, 1968-1971, 72-75, 78-80, chairman council commission on university women, 1969-1970. National advisory council National Institute on Aging, 1975-1976, 78-81, Federal Council on Aging, 1978-1981.
Deputy chairman White House Conference on Aging, 1980-1981.
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Member various advisory bodies. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association (council representative 1967-1969, 73-76, Distinguished Science Contribution award 1980, honoree Women's Heritage Exhibit 1992, Gold Medal award 1994), American Sociological Association, Gerontological Society of America (president 1968-1969, Kleemeier award 1971, Brookdale award 1982, Distinguished Mentor award 1988), American Academy Arts and Sciences, International Association Gerontology (governing council 1975-1978, chairman North America executive committee 1983-1985, distinguished creative contrbn. to gerontology award). Member Institute Medicine of National Academy of Sciences.
Married Fritz Neugarten, July 1, 1940. Children: Dail Ann, Jerrold.