by Dr. Jerry Stein | Oct 4, 2013 | All, Community, Foundations, Uncategorized
Mario Luis Small is a sociologist who has conducted research that questions the standard wisdom regarding poor communities and social capital. First, in Villa Victoria, Small compares the same neighborhood at two different times in its history. In 1990, Villa Victoria...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Sep 6, 2013 | All, Community, Foundations
In The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs pioneered understanding of modern cities and their neighborhoods that allows a nuanced sense of the relationship of the physical structures within cities to the maintenance of safe, friendly, lively and...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Aug 2, 2013 | All, Community, Foundations
This is part two of our two part series on Jane Jacobs – The Death and Life of Great American Cities In the final chapter of her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs draws from an essay on science and complexity written by Dr. Warren Weaver in...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Jun 7, 2013 | All, Community, Family, Foundations, Social Change
In Miles to Go, Daniel Patrick Moynihan argues that the poverty reduction methods we developed to reform society in the 20th century worked because although poor, the target communities were essentially “stable, settled populations” with large amounts of social...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Apr 5, 2013 | All, Community, Foundations
Malcolm Gladwell represents the contribution often made to important discussion in American life by journalists and public intellectuals. He gathers together, summarizes and draws implications out of a significant amount of writing and research building on the work...
by Dr. Jerry Stein | Feb 1, 2013 | All, Community, Foundations
Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich makes an argument based on evolutionary theory, that humans evolved over millions of years into “small-group animals”. This includes what he calls strong evidence that “unique features of our brains evolved in large part to solve the...
