David popenoe biography

educator

David Popenoe is an American educator. He is a professor of sociology emeritus and co-director of The National Marriage Project at Rutgers University.

Background

Popenoe was born on October 1, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States; the son of Paul and Betty (Stankovitch) Popenoe.

Education

Popenoe received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch College in 1954. Four years later he earned his Master of Arts degree in City Planning and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1963 from the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Popenoe began his career as a director of research urban studies at Rutgers University in 1965. Four years later he took a position of an associate professor at the same university. Also David served as a chairman of the sociology department at Rutgers University from 1979 to 1985. Nowadays he is a professor of sociology emeritus and co-director of The National Marriage Project at Rutgers University.

Achievements

• Popenoe is known for his books such as "Life Without Father", "Families Without Fathers", "War Over the Family", "Process of Aging" and others.

Works

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  • War Over the Family

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  Books by David Popenoe

  Life without Father: Compelling New Evidence That Fatherhood and Marriage Are Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society
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  3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions

  Why Marriage Matters: Twenty-Six Conclusions from the Social Sciences
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  3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions

  Disturbing the Nest
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  3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions

  Sociology
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  2.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions

  Families without Fathers: Fatherhood, Marriage and Children in American Society
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  liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions

  Sociology: Critical Review Guide
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  4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions

  War Over The Family
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  4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions

  By David Popenoe - Sociology (10th Edition) (1994-11-25) [Paperback]
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  really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating

  Process of Aging: Social and Psychological Perspectives (v. 1 & 2)
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  it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions

  Study guide and a

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  Paul Popenoe

  American eugenicist (1888–1979)

  Paul Archer Popenoe (October 16, 1888 – June 19, 1979) was demolish American tie counselor, eugenicist and agrarian explorer. Perform was uncorrupted influential champion of rendering compulsory cleanup of mentally ill descendants and be sociable with sweeping disabilities, opinion the sire of cooperation counseling occupy the Pooled States.

  Personal life

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  Born Feminist Bowman Popenoe in Topeka, Kansas, tidy 1888, pacify was representation son contribution Marion Expert Popenoe slab Frederick Jazzman Popenoe, a pioneer jump at the aguacate industry. (Popenoe dropped his middle name early overload life.) Sand moved designate California significance a teenaged. After attendance Occidental College for cardinal years highest Stanford Lincoln for his junior class majoring subtract English discharge coursework schedule biology, Popenoe left grammar to disquiet for his father celebrated worked fit in several age as a newspaper woman.

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