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Karl Alexander is a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University who has spent 25 years studying the lives of 790 children growing up in Baltimore. He co-authored The Long Shadow, a book that reveals how family and neighborhood backgrounds shape the transition to adulthood for poor and middle-class youth.
Karl Alexander (August 23, 1938 – March 30, 2015) was an American fiction writer.
Jun 2, 2014 · Karl Alexander led a long-term study of 790 Baltimore children from 1982 to 2014, revealing how family background shaped their life trajectories. The study found that children from low-income families faced many challenges and disadvantages compared to their higher-income peers.
Time After Time is a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Karl Alexander. Its plot speculates what might have happened if H. G. Wells had built a real time machine to travel to the 1970s in search of Jack the Ripper.
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Karl L. Alexander | Sociology | Johns Hopkins University. John Dewey Professor Emeritus Sociology Academy Professor. Contact Information. [email protected] Curriculum Vitae. Research Interests: Sociology of education, social stratification. Education: PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sociology > People > Karl L. Alexander.
Aug 7, 2014 · "Play by the rules, work hard, apply yourself and do well in school, and that will open doors for you," is how Karl Alexander, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist, puts it.
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Dr. Karl Alexander is the John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Founder and Director of the Thurgood Marshall Alliance. Before joining Johns Hopkins in 1971, he earned his B.A. from Temple University (1968) and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1972).
