Richard Taub
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Richard P. Taub is an American sociologist noted for his research on urban, rural, and community economic development
. He is a faculty member of the University of Chicago
's Department of Sociology and Department of Comparative Human Development and is also the Paul Klapper Professor
in the Social Sciences
. Taub has served as a consultant
for many social enterprise
s, research institutions and community development organizations such as the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, the National Community Development Initiative, and the National Opinion Research Center
. He advised the South Shore Bank and the Shorebank
Corporation from 1973-2007. His professional and academic concentrations include entrepreneurship
, microloan programs, economic development
, poverty
, social change
, the sociology of India
, public policy
initiatives, the evaluation of social programs, and the role of honor in generating behavioral outcomes. His students include Peter Dreier and Nicole Marwell; he also worked very closely with notable sociologists Michael Burawoy
, Mary Patillo and Reuben May when they were students. Taub is the recipient of numerous academic awards, research grants and fellowships such as the University of Chicago Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2004), as a Distinguished Visitor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and as a Resident Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University
(1997–98).
, New York
in 1937. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan
where he also served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Daily
newspaper. After earning his BA
in English Literature
with Distinction and Honors in 1959, he moved on to Harvard University
's Department of Social Relations
where he received his MA
in 1962 and his PhD
in 1966, both in Sociology
. During his time at Harvard he spent five years studying bureaucracy in India under the guidance of sociologist Alex Inkeles and Anthropologist Cora DuBois
and with the support of Fulbright and the American Institute for Indian Studies. After completing his PhD, Taub was an Assistant Professor of Sociology
at Brown University
from 1965-1969. He has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago
since 1969, where he has served as Assistant Professor of Sociology
, Associate Professor of Social Sciences
, Director of the Program for Urban Neighborhoods, Associate Dean of The College, Chair and Co-Chairman of the Undergraduate Program in Public Policy Studies at The College, Chairman of the Department of Comparative Human Development, the Paul Klapper Professor in the Social Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development, Department of Sociology and The College. While living in Chicago
he has served on many local boards, as President of the Hyde Park Kenwood Community Development Association, as Chairman of the St. Thomas the Apostle School Board, and as a board member of the Seminary Cooperative Bookstore
.
] (2006) There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America
, New York, NY: Random House
(2007) Paperback Edition. New York, NY: Vintage Books
(2004) Doing Development in Arkansas: Using credit to create opportunity for entrepreneurs outside the mainstream. Fayetteville AR: University of Arkansas
(1988) Community Capitalism. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press
(1992) Revised Paperback. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Agency
[with Taub, D.L.] (1989) Entrepreneurship in India's Small-Scale Industries: An exploration of social contexts. Riverdale, MD: The Riverdale Press
[with Taylor, D.G. & Dunham, J.D.] (1984) Paths of Neighborhood Change: Race and crime in urban America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
.
(1987) Paperback Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
[with Taub, D.L.] (1974) American Society in Tocqueville's Time and Today. (Eds.), Chicago, IL: Rand McNally
and Co.
(1969) Bureaucrats Under Stress: Administrators and administration in an Indian state. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
.
] (2008) There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America. In D.B. Grusky (Ed.), Social Stratification: Class, race, and gender in sociological perspective (3rd ed.) (pp 716–727). Boulder, CO: Westview Press
.
(2007) Research on Entrepreneurship, Culture and Law. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal
, 28(4), 893-898.
(1998) Making the Adaptation Across Cultures and Societies: A report on an attempt to clone the Grameen Bank in southern Arkansas. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
, 3(1), 14-29.
[with Taylor D.G. & Peterson B.] (1986) Crime, Community Organization, and Causes of Neighborhood Decline. In R. Figlio, S. Hakim, & G. Rengert (Eds.), Metropolitan Criminal Patterns. (pp161–177) Monsey, NY: Willowtree Press.
[with Taub D.L.] Cutback Entrepreneurs. (1980) In S. Seymour (ed.), The Transformation of a Sacred Town: Bhubaneswar, India, Boulder, CO: Westview Press
.
[with Surgeon G., Lindholm S., Betts Otti P., & Bridges A.] (1977) Urban Voluntary Associations, Locality Based and Externally Induced. American Journal of Sociology
, 83(2), 425-442.
Annual Meeting, Montreal, QB, Canada.
(1994, October). "The Southern Development Bancorporation Lessons Learned: The first five years. Paper presented at the American Agricultural Law Association
Conference, Memphis, TN.
(1991, October). Differing Conceptions of Honor and Orientations Toward Work and Marriage Among Low-Income African-Americans and Mexican-Americans. Paper presented at the University of Chicago
Urban Family Life Conference, Chicago, IL.
(1991) Published by Center for Urban Inequality, University of Chicago
.
(1990) Nuance and Meaning in Community Development: Finding community and development. Community Development Research Center, Paper presented at the Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research.
(1990) Published in National Social Science Journal.
(1990, April). Community Integration and the Role of Institutional Actors. Paper presented at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
[with Grzywinski, R.
& Reardon, E.] (1990, January). Capital and the Promotion of Entrepreneurship. Paper presented at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Conference on Enterprise and Employment Creation in Rural Areas, Paris, France.
(1996) [Review of the book Renewing Cities. R. Gittell. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 15(1)’’ 143-146.
(1991) [Review of the book “A Fragile Movement: The struggle for neighborhood stabilization,” J. Saltman.] The American Journal of Sociology 97(3).
. (1982). Safe and Secure Neighborhoods: Territoriality, Solidarity, and the Reduction of Crime. Chicago, IL.
[with Sander, S. & Bannor, J.] The Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies. Integration and Racial Change in Six Chicago Suburban Communities. Chicago, IL.
Economic development
Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area...
. He is a faculty member of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
's Department of Sociology and Department of Comparative Human Development and is also the Paul Klapper Professor
Professor
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in the Social Sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
. Taub has served as a consultant
Consultant
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for many social enterprise
Social enterprise
A social enterprise is an organization that applies business strategies to achieving philanthropic goals. Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit....
s, research institutions and community development organizations such as the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, the National Community Development Initiative, and the National Opinion Research Center
National Opinion Research Center
NORC at the University of Chicago, established in 1941 as the National Opinion Research Center, is one of the largest and most highly respected social research organizations in the United States. Its corporate headquarters are located on the University of Chicago campus...
. He advised the South Shore Bank and the Shorebank
ShoreBank
ShoreBank was a community development bank founded and headquartered in Chicago. At the time of its closing it was the oldest and largest such institution, and in 2008 had $2.6 billion in assets. It was owned by ShoreBank Corporation, a regulated bank holding company.ShoreBank had branches in...
Corporation from 1973-2007. His professional and academic concentrations include entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...
, microloan programs, economic development
Economic development
Economic development generally refers to the sustained, concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area...
, poverty
Poverty
Poverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live...
, social change
Social change
Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. It may refer to the notion of social progress or sociocultural evolution, the philosophical idea that society moves forward by dialectical or evolutionary means. It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic...
, the sociology of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, public policy
Public policy
Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...
initiatives, the evaluation of social programs, and the role of honor in generating behavioral outcomes. His students include Peter Dreier and Nicole Marwell; he also worked very closely with notable sociologists Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy is a British, sociological Marxist, best known as author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process under Monopoly Capitalisma study on work and organizations that has been translated into a number of languagesand as the leading proponent of public sociology...
, Mary Patillo and Reuben May when they were students. Taub is the recipient of numerous academic awards, research grants and fellowships such as the University of Chicago Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (2004), as a Distinguished Visitor at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and as a Resident Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
(1997–98).
Biography
Richard Taub was born in BrooklynBrooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
, New York
New York
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in 1937. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
where he also served as editor-in-chief of the Michigan Daily
Michigan Daily
The Michigan Daily is the daily student newspaper of the University of Michigan. Its first edition was published on September 29, 1890. The newspaper is financially and editorially independent of the University's administration and other student groups, but shares a university building with other...
newspaper. After earning his BA
Bachelor of Arts
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in English Literature
English literature
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with Distinction and Honors in 1959, he moved on to Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
's Department of Social Relations
Harvard Department of Social Relations
The Department of Social Relations for Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies, more commonly known as the "Department of Social Relations" was an interdisciplinary collaboration among three of the social science departments at Harvard University beginning in 1946...
where he received his MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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in 1962 and his PhD
PHD
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in 1966, both in Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
. During his time at Harvard he spent five years studying bureaucracy in India under the guidance of sociologist Alex Inkeles and Anthropologist Cora DuBois
Cora DuBois
Cora Alice Du Bois, was an American cultural anthropologist and a key figure in culture and personality studies and in psychological anthropology more generally.-Biography:...
and with the support of Fulbright and the American Institute for Indian Studies. After completing his PhD, Taub was an Assistant Professor of Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
from 1965-1969. He has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
since 1969, where he has served as Assistant Professor of Sociology
Sociology
Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
, Associate Professor of Social Sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
, Director of the Program for Urban Neighborhoods, Associate Dean of The College, Chair and Co-Chairman of the Undergraduate Program in Public Policy Studies at The College, Chairman of the Department of Comparative Human Development, the Paul Klapper Professor in the Social Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development, Department of Sociology and The College. While living in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
he has served on many local boards, as President of the Hyde Park Kenwood Community Development Association, as Chairman of the St. Thomas the Apostle School Board, and as a board member of the Seminary Cooperative Bookstore
Seminary Co-op
Seminary Cooperative Bookstores, Inc., founded in 1961, is a cooperative bookstore with three branches in the Chicago area. Its flagship, known colloquially as the Seminary Co-op or simply the Sem Co-op, is located in the basement of the Chicago Theological Seminary, next to the campus of the...
.
Books
[with Wilson, W.J.William Julius Wilson
William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
] (2006) There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America
There Goes the Neighborhood (book)
There Goes the Neighborhood by William Julius Wilson and Richard Taub was written in 2006 and is an investigation about racial, ethnic and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods. The four neighborhoods, Beltway, Dover, Archer Park, and Groveland are found on the south and west side of Chicago...
, New York, NY: Random House
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(2007) Paperback Edition. New York, NY: Vintage Books
Vintage Books
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(2004) Doing Development in Arkansas: Using credit to create opportunity for entrepreneurs outside the mainstream. Fayetteville AR: University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
(1988) Community Capitalism. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press
(1992) Revised Paperback. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Agency
[with Taub, D.L.] (1989) Entrepreneurship in India's Small-Scale Industries: An exploration of social contexts. Riverdale, MD: The Riverdale Press
[with Taylor, D.G. & Dunham, J.D.] (1984) Paths of Neighborhood Change: Race and crime in urban America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
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.
(1987) Paperback Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
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[with Taub, D.L.] (1974) American Society in Tocqueville's Time and Today. (Eds.), Chicago, IL: Rand McNally
Rand McNally
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and Co.
(1969) Bureaucrats Under Stress: Administrators and administration in an Indian state. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
University of California Press
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.
Articles and Chapters
[with Wilson, W.J.William Julius Wilson
William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
] (2008) There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America. In D.B. Grusky (Ed.), Social Stratification: Class, race, and gender in sociological perspective (3rd ed.) (pp 716–727). Boulder, CO: Westview Press
Westview Press
Westview Press is an American publishing house. It publishes textbooks and scholarly works for an academic audience.Westview was founded in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado by Fred Praeger. The press was sold in 1991 to SCS Communications. HarperCollins acquired the company in 1995. Since 1998, it has...
.
(2007) Research on Entrepreneurship, Culture and Law. Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal
Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal
The Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal is a law journal which publishes articles in the field of comparative and transnational labor and employment law....
, 28(4), 893-898.
(1998) Making the Adaptation Across Cultures and Societies: A report on an attempt to clone the Grameen Bank in southern Arkansas. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship covers research on micro-enterprise and small business development. The journal is published by World Scientific and covers topics such as: entrepreneurship and self-employment in developing contexts, marketing patterns and approaches in venture growth...
, 3(1), 14-29.
[with Taylor D.G. & Peterson B.] (1986) Crime, Community Organization, and Causes of Neighborhood Decline. In R. Figlio, S. Hakim, & G. Rengert (Eds.), Metropolitan Criminal Patterns. (pp161–177) Monsey, NY: Willowtree Press.
[with Taub D.L.] Cutback Entrepreneurs. (1980) In S. Seymour (ed.), The Transformation of a Sacred Town: Bhubaneswar, India, Boulder, CO: Westview Press
Westview Press
Westview Press is an American publishing house. It publishes textbooks and scholarly works for an academic audience.Westview was founded in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado by Fred Praeger. The press was sold in 1991 to SCS Communications. HarperCollins acquired the company in 1995. Since 1998, it has...
.
[with Surgeon G., Lindholm S., Betts Otti P., & Bridges A.] (1977) Urban Voluntary Associations, Locality Based and Externally Induced. American Journal of Sociology
American Journal of Sociology
The American Journal of Sociology was established in 1895 by Albion Small and is the oldest academic journal of sociology in the United States. The journal is attached to the University of Chicago's sociology department and it is published bimonthly by The University of Chicago Press. Its...
, 83(2), 425-442.
Papers Presented
(2006, August). Bridging Theoretical Divides: Race, culture, and concentrated poverty in American cities, Paper presented at the American Sociological AssociationAmerican Sociological Association
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Annual Meeting, Montreal, QB, Canada.
(1994, October). "The Southern Development Bancorporation Lessons Learned: The first five years. Paper presented at the American Agricultural Law Association
American Agricultural Law Association
The American Agricultural Law Association is a professional organization concerned with the legal needs of the agricultural community in the United States. The association was founded in 1985....
Conference, Memphis, TN.
(1991, October). Differing Conceptions of Honor and Orientations Toward Work and Marriage Among Low-Income African-Americans and Mexican-Americans. Paper presented at the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
Urban Family Life Conference, Chicago, IL.
(1991) Published by Center for Urban Inequality, University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
.
(1990) Nuance and Meaning in Community Development: Finding community and development. Community Development Research Center, Paper presented at the Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School for Social Research.
(1990) Published in National Social Science Journal.
(1990, April). Community Integration and the Role of Institutional Actors. Paper presented at the Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
[with Grzywinski, R.
Ron Grzywinski
Ron Grzywinski is a community development banker from Chicago, and one of four founders of ShoreBank. In May 2010 he retired as chair of ShoreBank Corporation and took the position of Advisor to the Board of Directors of ShoreBank Corporation....
& Reardon, E.] (1990, January). Capital and the Promotion of Entrepreneurship. Paper presented at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is an international economic organisation of 34 countries founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade...
Conference on Enterprise and Employment Creation in Rural Areas, Paris, France.
Reviews
(2009) [Review of the book Jobs and Economic Development in Minority Communities. P. Ong & A. Loukaitou-Sideis, (Eds.)] Journal of Urban Affairs, 31(2) 233-234.(1996) [Review of the book Renewing Cities. R. Gittell. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 15(1)’’ 143-146.
(1991) [Review of the book “A Fragile Movement: The struggle for neighborhood stabilization,” J. Saltman.] The American Journal of Sociology 97(3).
Reports
[with Dunham, J.D. & Taylor G.] National Opinion Research CenterNational Opinion Research Center
NORC at the University of Chicago, established in 1941 as the National Opinion Research Center, is one of the largest and most highly respected social research organizations in the United States. Its corporate headquarters are located on the University of Chicago campus...
. (1982). Safe and Secure Neighborhoods: Territoriality, Solidarity, and the Reduction of Crime. Chicago, IL.
[with Sander, S. & Bannor, J.] The Center for Urban Research and Policy Studies. Integration and Racial Change in Six Chicago Suburban Communities. Chicago, IL.