The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik interviews Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson.
Many people believe that individual character determines outcomes. But new research challenges this idea. In a three-decade study of over 1,000 Chicago children, sociologist and Vital City contributor Robert J. Sampson finds that the era into which you're born matters as much as who your parents are. Children born a decade apart — from identical backgrounds and neighborhoods — experience dramatically different life trajectories.
Join Vital City, NYU Wagner and the Russell Sage Foundation for a conversation between New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and Robert Sampson about his new book, “Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans.”
Featuring remarks from
Polly Trottenberg, Dean, NYU Wagner
Elizabeth Glazer, Founder and Co-Editor, Vital City
Bruce Western, President, Russell Sage Foundation
Monday, April 27 | 5:00 PM doors, 5:45 PM program
NYU Wagner Main Event Space, 105 E 17th St, New York, NY
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