Western Washington University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Thesis
Residential Segregation of Spanish Americans in United States Urbanized Areas (1978)
Academic work
Discipline
Sociology
Institutions
Princeton University
Main interests
Sociology, immigration, residential segregation
Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Massey specializes in the sociology of immigration, and has written on the effect of residential segregation on the black underclass in the United States.
He has been president of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology.[1]
^"Front Matter". Annual Review of Sociology. 31. 2005. ISSN 0360-0572. JSTOR 29737708. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Princeton School of Public...
depends on self-sufficiency, and is coupled with economic prosperity. DouglasMassey describes how migrant networks provide new immigrants with social capital...
outlined below, including those developed by William Julius Wilson, DouglasMassey and Nancy Denton, Lawrence M. Mead, and Ken Auletta. The work by these...
Other economists, such as Gordon Hanson, criticized these findings. DouglasMassey argues that developed countries need unskilled immigrant labor to fill...
federal government and the armed forces. In an often-cited 1988 study, DouglasMassey and Nancy Denton compiled 20 existing segregation measures and reduced...
Fernandez-Kelly; Gilberto Cârdenas; Yen Espiritu; Amaney Jamal; Sunaina Maira; DouglasMassey; Cecilia Menjivar; Clifford Murphy; Terry Rey; Susan Seifert; Alex Stepick;...
(1994–1997) Hagan and Karen S. Cook (1998–2004) Cook and DouglasMassey (2005–2023) Massey and Mary C. Waters (August 2023–present). List of sociology...
known for her research on racial segregation in the United States with DouglasMassey, with whom she co-authored the book American Apartheid. A book, well...
Clinton-era Prevention Through Deterrence strategy. The sociologist DouglasMassey has argued that these policies have succeeded at producing a perception...
population still living in metropolitan areas. American sociologist DouglasMassey, in his essay, "The New Geography of Inequality in Urban America", argues...
moving to America than they once did. Princeton University sociologist DouglasMassey believes that immigrants felt less pressure to change their names "during...
Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000) 2001–present DouglasMassey (2001) Barbara Reskin (2002) William T. Bielby (2003) Michael Burawoy...
Design of the Built Environment, 124 YALE L.J. 1934 (2015). citing DOUGLASMASSEY & NANCY DENTON, AMERICAN APARTHEID (1998); see generally Fed. Highway...
education, occupation, and other job-relevant characteristics. Sociologist DouglasMassey found that 41% remains unexplained, while CONSAD analysts found that...
Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000) 2001–present DouglasMassey (2001) Barbara Reskin (2002) William T. Bielby (2003) Michael Burawoy...
philosopher, social theorist Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist DouglasMassey, American sociologist Brian Massumi, Canadian social theorist Humberto...
Martin, Oscar winner of Best Feature Documentary for Undefeated, 2012 DouglasMassey (1974), sociologist working as a professor at Princeton University and...
during World War II before marrying Lionel Massey in 1946. She had previously been married to Flying Officer Douglas Byrd Van Buskirk, a Royal Canadian Air...
the relations among persons change in ways that facilitate action.” DouglasMassey, Jorge Durand and Nolan J. Malone assert that “each act of migration...
Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000) 2001–present DouglasMassey (2001) Barbara Reskin (2002) William T. Bielby (2003) Michael Burawoy...
Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000) 2001–present DouglasMassey (2001) Barbara Reskin (2002) William T. Bielby (2003) Michael Burawoy...
about their experiences and opportunities. This connection is what DouglasMassey defined as Social Capital Theory. Migrants create social ties in the...
lighting, and high rates of crime. DouglasMassey and Nancy Denton explore this logic in their book "American Apartheid". Massey and Denton focus their research...
Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000) 2001–present DouglasMassey (2001) Barbara Reskin (2002) William T. Bielby (2003) Michael Burawoy...
Quadagno (1998) Alejandro Portes (1999) Joe Feagin (2000) 2001–present DouglasMassey (2001) Barbara Reskin (2002) William T. Bielby (2003) Michael Burawoy...
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