Background
Laumann, Edward Otto was born on August 31, 1938 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States.
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Critics of the policy-making process argue that private interest groups exert too much influence on the decisions of government, but only rarely has this proposition been examined systematically. The Hollow Core draws on interviews with more than 300 interest groups, 800 lobbyists, and 300 government officials to assess the efforts of private organizations to influence federal policy in four areas--agriculture, energy, health, and labor policy.
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( The Federal Government in the United States is a govern...)
The Federal Government in the United States is a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Presidents are elected by popular vote in the nation (filtered through the electoral college), Senators are elected by popular vote in their states, and Representatives are elected by popular vote in their Congressional districts. Cabinet members and agency heads are appointed by the elected president, as are members of the Supreme Court. But this says nothing about politics. Professor Lauman and Knoke have asked, in this book, how policies were made, in the period 1977-1980, in the areas of energy and health. The question is a very different one from the question of how the positions of president and Congress are filled.
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( The legal profession is stratified primarily by the cha...)
The legal profession is stratified primarily by the character of the clients served, not by the type of legal service rendered, as John P. Heinz and Edward O. Laumann convincingly demonstrate. In their classic study of the Chicago bar, the authors draw on interviews with nearly 800 lawyers to show that the profession is divided into two distinct hemispheres--corporate and individual--and that this dichotomy is reflected in the distribution of prestige among lawyers.
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Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an unprecedented rate, and the scale of firms has greatly expanded. This immense growth has transformed the nature and social structure of the legal profession. In the most comprehensive analysis of the urban bar to date, Urban Lawyers presents a compelling portrait of how these changes continue to shape the field of law today. Drawing on extensive interviews with Chicago lawyers, the authors demonstrate how developments in the profession have affected virtually every aspect of the work and careers of urban lawyers-their relationships with clients, job tenure and satisfaction, income, social and political values, networks of professional connections, and patterns of participation in the broader community. Yet despite the dramatic changes, much remains the same. Stratification of income and power based on gender, race, and religious background, for instance, still maintains inequality within the bar. The authors of Urban Lawyers conclude that organizational priorities will likely determine the future direction of the legal profession. And with this landmark study as their guide, readers will be able to make their own informed predictions.
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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year The Social Organization of Sexuality reports the complete results of the nation's most comprehensive representative survey of sexual practices in the general adult population of the United States. This highly detailed portrait of sex in America and its social context and implications has established a new and original scientific orientation to the study of sexual behavior.
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Laumann, Edward Otto was born on August 31, 1938 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States.
AB summa cum laude, Oberlin College, 1960. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964.
Assistant professor sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964-1969; associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969-1972; professor sociology, University of Chicago, since 1973; George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service professor, University of Chicago, since 1985; department chairman, University of Chicago, 1981-1984, 97-; dean division of social science, University of Chicago, 1984-1992; provost, University of Chicago, 1992-1993. Board of Governors Argonne National Laboratory, 1992-1993.
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Member sociology panel National Science Foundation, Washington, 1972-1974. Commissioner CBASSE, National Research Council, 1986-1991. Chair board trustees NORC, 2001^.
Trustee University Chicago Hospitals, 1992-1993. Member Panel on Elder Mistreatment, 2000-2002. Board directors Family Institute, 2004^.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman section K 2001-2004), Science Society Study Sexuality (S.S.S.S. Midwest region Alfred Kinsey award 2008), International Academy Sex Research. Member Sociological Research Association, American Sociological Association (secretary sexuality 2009, William Simon-John Gasnon award 2009), Population Association American. Chicago Council Foreign Relations (president's circuit), Judicial Performance Commission Cook County, 2010.
Married Anne Elizabeth Solomon, June 21, 1980. Children: Christopher, Timothy. Children by previous marriage: Eric, Lisa.