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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
Bachelors Sociology Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Mario Luis Small is a sociologist and Quetelet Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. Small's research interests include urban poverty, inequality, personal networks, and qualitative and mixed methods. Small was previously a faculty member at Harvard University, University of Chicago, and Princeton University.

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Mario Luis Small's Published Works

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`How many cases do I need?' (2009) (1250)
How to Conduct a Mixed Methods Study: Recent Trends in a Rapidly Growing Literature (2011) (597)
Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (2010) (544)
URBAN POVERTY AFTER THE TRULY DISADVANTAGED : The Rediscovery of the Family, the Neighborhood, and Culture (2001) (499)
Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life (2009) (286)
The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods:An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects (2006) (221)
Urban mobility and neighborhood isolation in America’s 50 largest cities (2018) (206)
Neighborhood Institutions as Resource Brokers: Childcare Centers, Interorganizational Ties, and Resource Access among the Poor (2006) (204)
How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understanding of Poverty (2008) (174)
Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project1 (2002) (156)
Weak ties and the core discussion network: Why people regularly discuss important matters with unimportant alters (2013) (151)
Racial Differences in Networks: Do Neighborhood Conditions Matter? (2007) (145)
The Role of Space in the Formation of Social Ties (2019) (131)
Ethnographic Evidence, Heterogeneity, and Neighbourhood Effects After Moving to Opportunity (2012) (118)
Why Organizational Ties Matter for Neighborhood Effects: Resource Access through Childcare Centers (2008) (114)
Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio (2004) (114)
Sociological Perspectives on Racial Discrimination (2020) (114)
How stable is the core discussion network? (2015) (110)
Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged (2013) (97)
Someone To Talk To (2017) (92)
Because they were there: Access, deliberation, and the mobilization of networks for support (2016) (88)
Four Reasons to Abandon the Idea of “The Ghetto” (2008) (76)
Are Poor Neighborhoods Resource Deprived? A Case Study of Childcare Centers in New York* (2005) (71)
Department conditions and the emergence of new disciplines: Two cases in the legitimation of African-American Studies (1999) (66)
The Social Integration of American Cities: Network Measures of Connectedness Based on Everyday Mobility Across Neighborhoods (2019) (53)
De–Exoticizing Ghetto Poverty: On the Ethics of Representation in Urban Ethnography (2015) (47)
Introduction: Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (2010) (46)
Do Networks Help People To Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field (2020) (45)
Lost In Translation: How Not to Make Qualitative Research More Scientific (2005) (44)
Black students’ graduation from elite colleges: Institutional characteristics and between-institution differences (2007) (43)
Is there such a thing as ‘the ghetto’? (2007) (41)
We can help, but there’s a catch (2019) (38)
Participation in Context: Neighborhood Diversity and Organizational Involvement in Boston (2013) (35)
Ethnography, Neighborhood Effects, and the Rising Heterogeneity of Poor Neighborhoods across Cities (2018) (30)
HOW CULTURE MATTERS FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY: (2007) (26)
Promoting Parents' Social Capital to Increase Children's Attendance in Head Start: Evidence From an Experimental Intervention (2016) (24)
Causal Thinking and Ethnographic Research (2013) (22)
Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among Elementary School Children (2017) (22)
Cultural diversity and anti-poverty policy. (2010) (18)
How Do Low-Income People Form Survival Networks? Routine Organizations as Brokers (2020) (17)
From residence to movement: The nature of racial segregation in everyday urban mobility (2021) (16)
A Two-Generation Human Capital Approach to Anti-poverty Policy (2018) (15)
How Culture Matters for Poverty : Thickening our Understanding (2006) (13)
For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities (2006) (13)
in field-based research `How many cases do I need?': On science and the logic of case selection (2009) (10)
Using Interviews to Understand Why: Challenges and Strategies in the Study of Motivated Action (2021) (10)
Reconsidering Culture and Poverty the Annals of the American Academy Scholarly Motivations Policy Motivations Moving Forward What Is Culture? (8)
Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities (2021) (8)
Choices in networks: a research framework (2020) (7)
The data revolution in social science needs qualitative research (2022) (7)
A spatiotemporal decay model of human mobility when facing large-scale crises (2022) (5)
Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication (2007) (5)
Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice: Discrimination in the United States. By Samuel Roundfield Lucas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. Pp. x+285. (2010) (4)
REAVALIANDO CULTURA E POBREZA (2011) (4)
and Organizations Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged : The Role of Systems, Institutions, (2013) (4)
What is “Qualitative” in Qualitative Research? Why the Answer Does not Matter but the Question is Important (2021) (4)
Understanding when people will report crimes to the police (2018) (4)
Book Review: Rojas, Fabio. (2007). From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press (2009) (3)
Qualitative Literacy (2022) (3)
On Mobilization (2021) (3)
Two Generations. One Future. An Anthology from the Ascend Fellowship (2015) (3)
Contexts of Social Capital: Social Networks in Markets, Communities, and Families (2010) (3)
Ethnography Upgraded (2022) (2)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Ego Networks (2020) (1)
Weak and Strong Ties (2009) (1)
Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among African American Elementary School children (2011) (1)
Reply to Vallée: Different questions for different data (2018) (1)
Organizational Ties and Neighborhood Effects (2009) (0)
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. By Mary Pattillo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xii+388. $29.00. (2008) (0)
The Challenge of Seeing Beyond our Differences: A Review of "Inventing the Ties that Bind: Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life" by Francesca Polletta (review) (2022) (0)
Ties to Other Organizations (2009) (0)
Childcare Centers and Mothers’ Well‐Being (2009) (0)
Is Chicago an Outlier ? Organizational Density in Poor Urban Neighborhoods (2007) (0)
Opportunities and Inducements (2009) (0)
Interview 7 Mario L. Small (2020) (0)
Social Capital and Organizational Embeddedness (2009) (0)
Race and Ethnic Politics (2007) (0)
The Ghetto: Contemporary Global Issues and Controversies. Edited by Ray Hutchison and Bruce D. Haynes. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2011. Pp. xliv+340. $40.00 (paper). (2013) (0)
Masthead (2010) (0)
Extensions and Implications (2009) (0)
Trust and Obligations (2009) (0)
Depopulation and the Rise of Inequality Across Urban Poor Neighborhoods (2017) (0)
Ethnography Upgraded (2022) (0)
Public Sociology for a Pandemic Era (2021) (0)
Causal Thinking and Ethnographic Research Author ( s ) : (2014) (0)

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