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Terry Williams

Born

Mississippi, The United States

Website

https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/terry-wi...

Genre

Sociology, Nonfiction

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Terry Moses Williams, Ph.D. (City College of New York, 1978), is Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research who has received the MacArthur Foundation Award and the Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship, and was selected as Senior Fellow of the Yale University Urban Ethnography Project.

Professor Williams’ research has focused on a variety of distinct but related research topics in the field of social inequalities and subcultures, notably: poverty, homelessness, youth unemployment, teenage suicide, teen survival strategies in the illegal drug economy, drug abuse and drug culture, crews and gangs, sex work, and incarceration. For over four decades he has conducted a micro-sociological analysis of social inequalities and subcultu ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 731 ratings · 117 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cocaine Kids: The Inside Story of a Teenage Drug Ring 3.61 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1989 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line 3.57 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm 3.58 avg rating — 80 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York 3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Con Men: Hustling in New York City by Terry Williams, Trevor Milton liked it 3.00 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing up Poor by Terry Williams, William Kornblum 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Indian Upper Class: Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan by Terry Williams, Raza Mohammed Khan it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uptown Kids: Struggle and Hope in the Projects by Terry Williams, William Kornblum 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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