Background
George Farkas was born on December 23, 1946, in the United States.
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(This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed...)
This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics as applied to youth employment, point out the error in many commonly accepted views, and show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood. These studies also supply a significant amount of raw data, furnish a platform for further research and theoretical work in labor economics, and direct attention to promising avenues for future programs. This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics as applied to youth employment, point out the error in many commonly accepted views, and show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood. These studies also supply a significant amount of raw data, furnish a platform for further research and theoretical work in labor economics, and direct attention to promising avenues for future programs.
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1982
(During the twentieth century arrangements governing love,...)
During the twentieth century arrangements governing love, work, and their routinization in households and employment underwent a transformation. During this period women gained employment opportunities. This reduced sex differentiation, but did not equalize the roles or power of men and women. The goal of this book is to describe the trends and patterns that remain constant amidst the change, and to provide an integrated framework for understanding them. The authors focus on a three-tier level of integration that is not available in other studies of this kind. First, they combine the topics of households and employment, showing similarities and causal links between household and employment arrangements. Second, a conceptual framework is provided that gives attention to both individuals’ choices and to the structural constraints that limit available options. Finally, an integration of economic and sociological views of employment, demographic behavior, and other household behavior is examined. By using both individual and structural views, Paula England and George Farkas provide an overview of this coupling. This work is unique in that it draws from both economics and sociology and from demographers in both disciplines. Households, Employment, and Gender is an analytic synthesis for scholars and an invaluable sourcebook for classes on gender, labor, the family, social demography, economics, and economic sociology.
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1986
(What are the links among industrial structure, segmentati...)
What are the links among industrial structure, segmentation, the internal structure of firms, job characteristics, technology, productivity, labor markets, and product markets? The answers, posited by a distinguished group of sociologists and economists, have gained resonance as the field of economic sociology has grown. In this expanded edition, the editors and their economist colleague, Kevin Lang, explore the theoretical interstices and update the references. Sociologists and economists have responded differently to work within the other discipline. For some sociologists, the typical economic assumption of basic actors engaged in rational action is both unrealistic and objectionable. Other sociologists have not always agreed with everything economists do, they have seen "rational choice" as a partially true description of human behavior and as a starting point for sociological theorizing. Among economists, the situation is quite different: most have maintained their basic rational choice model while pushing aggressively into substantive areas previously addressed only by sociologists and political scientists. Industries, Firms, and Jobs is a welcome reassertion of an old tradition of interdisciplinary research. That tradition has recently weakened, largely because of an enormous expansion of the domain of neoclassical economics. The expansion has fed on two scientific developments: human capital theory and contract theory. This book is an invaluable resource for all economists, sociologists, labor specialists, and business professionals.
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1994
(This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the ear...)
This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the early educational determinants of social stratification outcomes. It focuses on the process and consequences of unequal cognitive skill attainment for ethnic and poverty groups within our nation's cities. It draws, theoretically, on the notion that experiences at home and school create a feedback loop by which the ""cultural capital"" of the students (their toolkit of skills, habits, and styles with which they construct strategies of action) evolves over time and largely determines differential success in mastering the teacher-assigned homework.
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1996
(Stimulated by unprecedented and complex changes in the na...)
Stimulated by unprecedented and complex changes in the nation's social landscape, the fourteen original papers in the present volume attempt to recast our approach to existing institutional arrangements between family and economy. The authors set the stage for redefinitions that give meaning and place to individuals, thus serving broader social goals.
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1998
George Farkas was born on December 23, 1946, in the United States.
Farkas received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1967, and his doctorate in Sociology from Cornell University in 1973.
Farkas started his career as an assistant professor of sociology at Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University in New Haven in 1972. In 1978, he left the university and went to Abt Associates, Inc. in Cambridge, where he worked as a senior analyst for the next four years. He then became an associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and in 1987 was appointed as a professor of sociology and political economy there.
He then also was a head of the university's Graduate Program in Political Economy from 1989 to 1994, founder and director of Center for Education and Social Policy there since 1993 and a professor of sociology, demography, and education at Pennsylvania State University.
Currently, Farkas holds the position of distinguished professor at the School of Education at the University of California in Irvine.
Farkas’ research has made a major contribution to understanding the school achievement gap for low income and ethnic minority students. He has employed a range of statistical approaches and databases to examine the causes and consequences of this gap across varying age groups and educational settings and was one of the first to show that the gap emerges in early childhood. His research has also examined students’ learning-related behaviours, and their causes, consequences, and relationship to the achievement gap. He has studied the life cycle earnings consequences of cognitive skill and behavioural differences between individuals and has done research on gender differences. He has a particular interest in quasi-experimental statistical methodology.
Farkas applied his knowledge and interest in the achievement gap to develop a successful tutoring program that improved reading skills of low-income, minority, and limited English proficient elementary school students. This tutoring program, Reading One-to-One, was widely implemented throughout the country and helped invent President Clinton’s “America Reads” initiative.
(What are the links among industrial structure, segmentati...)
1994(Stimulated by unprecedented and complex changes in the na...)
1998(This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed...)
1982(During the twentieth century arrangements governing love,...)
1986(This study seeks to reorient our understanding of the ear...)
1996Farkas is a member of the American Sociological Association, American Economic Association and Sociological Research Association.
