Frances Fox Piven

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Frances Fox Piven

Frances Fox Piven (* 1932 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York .

She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1962 . From 2006 to 2007 she was president of the American Sociological Association . She was married to Richard A. Cloward , with whom she worked for a long time. He died in 2001.

activities

Throughout her entire career, Piven combined her academic work with social and political engagement. For example, in 1983 she co-founded Human SERVE , an organization that tried to get people to register for elections. The group's suggestion was that people who used social services or were involved in car administration should be asked about registration. Research had shown that arms in particular often could not be registered. The Human Serve initiative was taken up by the Clinton administration and the 1993 National Voter Registration Act was amended. This version of the law is popularly known as the "motor voter bill" (Ehrenreich 2006).

After continued hostility from the ultra-conservative Fox news anchor Glenn Beck , Piven received repeated death threats.

Awards and honors

She received the American Sociological Association Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (2000), the Mary Lepper Award of the Womens' Caucus of the American Political Science Association (1998); the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociology Association; the Tides Foundation Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy (1995); the Annual Award of the National Association of Secretaries of State (1994); President's Award of the American Public Health Association (1993), Lee / Founders Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems; the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award.

bibliography

  • Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)
  • The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (New Press, 2004)
  • Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies (Oxford University Press, 1992)

With Richard Cloward:

  • Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (Beacon, 2000)
  • The Breaking of the American Social Compact (New Press, 1997)
  • Why Americans Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (Beacon, 1988)
  • New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences (Pantheon, 1982)
  • Poor People's Movements: Why the Succeed, How they Fail (Pantheon, 1977), German uprising of the poor , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1986
  • Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (Pantheon, 1971), German regulation of poverty: diepolitik d. public Wohlfahrt , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1977.

Frances Fox Piven Papers papers are held at Smith College .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frances Fox Piven defies death threats after taunts by anchorman Glenn Beck , at www.theguardian.com, accessed December 26, 2018
  2. ^ CUNY Sociology Faculty ( Memento from May 5, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Scope and Contents of the Collection , from asteria.fivecolleges.edu, accessed December 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Piven, Frances Fox
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian political scientist and university professor, professor of political science
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta