Frances Fox Piven
American sociologist
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Frances Fox Piven's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Chicago
- Masters Sociology University of Chicago
- Bachelors City Planning University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frances Fox Piven is an American professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she has taught since 1982. Piven is known equally for her contributions to social theory and for her social activism. A public advocate of the war on poverty and subsequent welfare-rights protests both in New York City and on the national stage, she has been instrumental in formulating the theoretical underpinnings of those movements. Over the course of her career, she has served on the boards of the ACLU and the Democratic Socialists of America, and has also held offices in several professional associations, including the American Political Science Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Previously, she had been a member of the political science faculty at Boston University.
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