Dalton Conley
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Dalton Clark Conley (born 1969) is an American sociologist. Conley is a professor at Princeton University and has written eight books, including a memoir and a sociology textbook.
Education
Conley attended Stuyvesant High School. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in humanities and from Columbia University with an M.P.A. in public policy and a Ph.D. in sociology. He also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in biology (genomics) from NYU.[1]
Career
Conley is best known for his contributions to understanding how health and socioeconomic status are transmitted across generations.[2] His first book, Being Black, Living in the Red (1999), focuses on the role of family wealth in perpetuating class advantages and racial inequalities in the post-Civil Rights era.[3]
He has also studied the role of health in the status attainment process. An article, "Is Biology Destiny: Birth Weight and Life Chances" (with Neil G. Bennett, American Sociological Review 1999) and his second book, The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances (with Kate Strully and Neil G. Bennett, 2003) addressed the importance of birth weight and prenatal health to later socioeconomic outcomes.[4] Conley's next book, The Pecking Order, which followed in 2004, argued for the importance of within-family, ascriptive factors in determining sibling differences in socioeconomic success.[5] Conley's subsequent book, Elsewhere, U.S.A., published in 2009, describes changes in American work-life attitudes and social ethics in the information economy.[6] In 2014, he published the satirical book, Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask, using his own parenting decisions as examples.[7][8]
In 2017, Conley published The Genome Factor, co-authored with Jason Fletcher. This book discusses the nature versus nurture debate and the influence of genes on social life.[9] Conley has also written an introductory sociology textbook, entitled You May Ask Yourself, currently in its 7th edition.[10] He has also penned a memoir, Honky (2000) that examines Conley's own childhood growing up white in an inner-city neighborhood of housing projects of New York City.[11]
Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.[12]
Selected awards and honors
- Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019).[13]
- Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (2018).[14]
- Otis Dudley Duncan Award, American Sociological Association (2018).[15]
- Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017).[16]
- Guggenheim Fellow (2011).[17]
- Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations (2007).[18]
- Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation (2005).[19]
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2001).[20]
- Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1999).[21]
- Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association (1997).[22]
Personal life
Conley is married to the Bosnian-American astrophysicist Tea Temim with whom he has a child. He also has two children from a previous marriage: a daughter named E; a son named Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles Jeremijenko-Conley.[23][24]
Works
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References
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