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William Julius Wilson
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- William Julius Wilson, who is currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, is one of the nation's leading sociologists and public intellectuals. Time magazine in 1996 named him as one of America's twenty-five most influential Americans, and a Washington Post article described him as the “most influential sociologist of his generation.” His sociological writings are primarily concerned with analyzing questions of changing race relations using sociohistorical and theoretical perspectives. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Wilson, William Julius (1935-)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/William_Julius_Wilson
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