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Cloward was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Esther Marie (Fleming), an artist and women"s rights activist, and Donald Cloward, a radical Baptist minister.
Bachelor, University Rochester, 1948. Master of Social Work, Columbia, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1958.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Adelphi University, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters, Hunter College, 1999.
He influenced the Strain theory of criminal behavior and the concept of anomie, and was a primary motivator for the passage of the National Voter Registration Acting of 1993 known as "Motor Voter". He taught at Columbia University for 47 years. Cloward served as an Ensign in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.
He received a bachelor"s degree from the University of Rochester in 1949, and then a master"s degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work in 1950.
He then served as a First Lieutenant in the United States. Army from 1951 to 1954, and later worked as a social worker in an army prison in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Cloward became an assistant professor at Columbia"s School of Social Work in 1954, and had visiting posts at the Hebrew University, the University of Amsterdam, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Arizona State University.
He received a doctorate in sociology from Columbia University in 1958. Together with fellow sociologist Lloyd Ohlin, Cloward wrote Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs, which rejected the prevailing premise that delinquency resulted from individual irresponsibility and argued it was caused by poverty and the lack of alternative opportunities caused by poverty, and that the conditions underlying delinquency could be resolved through social programs.
In 1966, Cloward co-founded the National Welfare Rights Organization, which advocated federalizing Aid to Families with Dependent Children by building local welfare rolls.
Also in 1966, he and Piven published a paper in the May issue of The Nation magazine — "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty", which advocated wiping out poverty by increasing demands on the federal government, leading to implementation of a guaranteed minimum income. His detractors have called this the "Cloward-Piven Strategy".
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Trustee Abbott House for Children, New York City, 1965-1969, Northside Center Child Development, 1964-1968, Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, Washington, 1964-1968, Poverty/Rights Action Center, since 1966. Board directors New York Civil Liberties Union, 1968-1980. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946.
As officer Army of the United States, 1951-1954. Member National Association of Social Workers (Lifetime Achievement award 1999), American Association of University Professors, American Sociological Association (Lifetime Achievement award in political sociology 1995, Distinguished Career award for practice in sociology 2000).
Married Ethelmarie McGaffin, March 25, 1951 (divorced 1979). Children– Leslie Anne, Mark, Kevin, Keith.
