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Paul Schervish

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Paul Schervish's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Paul G. Schervish is an American sociologist and former Jesuit priest who specializes in the academic study of philanthropy. He is a professor emeritus of sociology at Boston College, where he formerly served as director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy prior to its closure in 2015. During the 2000–01 academic year, he was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Cork. He has been named to the NonProfit Times annual "Power and Influence Top 50" list five times.

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Social participation and charitable giving: A multivariate analysis (1997) (242)
Workers' Earnings and Corporate Economic Structure. (1985) (122)
Major donors, major motives: The people and purposes behind major gifts (1997) (116)
Methodology Is Destiny: The Effect of Survey Prompts on Reported Levels of Giving and Volunteering (2004) (113)
A Methodological Comparison of Giving Surveys: Indiana as a Test Case (2001) (111)
23. Charitable Giving: How Much, by Whom, to What, and How? (2017) (105)
Millionaires and the millennium: New estimates of the forthcoming wealth transfer and the prospects for a golden age of philanthropy (1999) (82)
Why the Wealthy Give: The Culture of Elite Philanthropy by Francie Ostrower:Why the Wealthy Give: The Culture of Elite Philanthropy (1997) (78)
The Boston Area Diary Study and the Moral Citizenship of Care (2002) (62)
Care and Community in Modern Society: Passing on the Tradition of Service to Future Generations (1995) (58)
Wealth and the Commonwealth: New Findings on Wherewithal and Philanthropy (2001) (54)
Why the wealthy give (2007) (54)
The structural determinants of unemployment: Vulnerability and power in market relations (1983) (50)
Do the Poor Pay More: Is the U-Shaped Curve Correct? (1995) (49)
USING ADJUSTED CROSSTABULATIONS TO INTERPRET LOG-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS* (1986) (41)
WHY THE $41 TRILLION WEALTH TRANSFER ESTIMATE IS STILL VALID: A REVIEW OF CHALLENGES AND QUESTIONS Introduction (2003) (40)
Money and Magnanimity: New Findings on the Distribution of Income, Wealth, and Philanthropy (1998) (39)
The Methods and Metrics of the Boston Area Diary Study (2001) (33)
The Moral Biography of Wealth: Philosophical Reflections on the Foundation of Philanthropy (2006) (32)
Agent-Animated Wealth and Philanthropy: The Dynamics of Accumulation and Allocation Among High-Tech Donors (2001) (25)
Explaining the curve in the U-shaped curve (1995) (25)
Empowerment and beneficience: Strategies of living and giving among the wealthy (1988) (21)
Hyperagency and high-tech donors: A new theory of the new philanthropists (2003) (21)
Embarking on a Republic of Benevolence? New Survey Findings on Charitable Giving (1998) (19)
Variations on a Theme (1987) (18)
The spiritual horizons of philanthropy: New directions for money and motives (2000) (18)
The dependent variable of the independent sector: the definition and measurement of giving and volunteering (1993) (18)
Wherewithal and beneficence: Charitable giving by income and wealth (1995) (17)
New findings on the patterns of wealth and philanthropy (2003) (17)
The mind of the millionaire: Findings from a National Survey on Wealth with Responsibility (2001) (16)
Adoption and Altruism: Those with Whom I Want to Share a Dream (1992) (15)
The modern Medici: Patterns, motivations, and giving strategies of the wealthy (2000) (15)
Geography and Giving: The Culture of Philanthropy in New England and the Nation (2007) (13)
A golden age of philanthropy still beckons: National wealth transfer and potential for philanthropy (2014) (13)
Is Today's Philanthropy Failing Beneficiaries? Always a Risk, But Not for the Most Part (2007) (12)
Geography and Generosity: Boston and Beyond (2005) (9)
Wealth and the Will of God: Discerning the Use of Riches in the Service of Ultimate Purpose (2010) (9)
Social participation and charitable giving revisited: Replication of a multivariate analysis (1998) (9)
Making money and making a self: the moral career of entrepreneurs (2016) (8)
Wealth transfer estimates for African American households (2005) (7)
CULTURE AND EMOTION IN CHRISTMAS: THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE (1996) (7)
The sound of one hand clapping: the case for and against anonymous giving (1994) (7)
Towards a general theory of the philanthropic activities of the wealthy (1986) (6)
Geography and Generosity: Boston and Beyond Geography and Generosity: Boston and Beyond (2005) (6)
Wealth in Western Thought: The Case for and against Riches (1995) (5)
High-tech donors and their impact philanthropy: the conventional, novel and strategic traits of agent-animated wealth and philanthropy (2014) (5)
The spiritual secret of wealth: The inner dynamics by which fortune engenders care (2002) (4)
Beyond Altruism: Philanthropy as Moral Biography and Moral Citizenship of Care (2014) (4)
The inheritance of wealth and the commonwealth: The ideal of paideia in an age of affluence (2003) (4)
Wealth and the Will of God (2010) (4)
Reply to Hodgkinson and Weitzman (1998) (3)
Knowing the Poor: A Case Study in Textual Reality Construction. (1987) (3)
Geography and Giving Geography and Giving The Culture of Philanthropy (2007) (3)
A Golden Age of Philanthropy?: The Impact of the Great Wealth Transfer on Greater Boston (2006) (3)
Extended report on the wealth with responsibility study/2000 (2001) (3)
The Structural Determinants of Unemployment: Vulnerability and Power in Market Relations. (1985) (2)
Receiving & Giving as Spiritual Exercise (2008) (2)
Center on Wealth and Philanthropy charitable giving indices: Social indicators of philanthropy by state (2006) (2)
Solving the Giving Pledge Bottleneck (2016) (1)
Wealth transfer study: 2001-2055, North Dakota (2005) (1)
Disciplinary Perspectives: Finding God in Some Things (2001) (1)
Wealth Transfer and Potential for Philanthropy Boston Metropolitan Area Technical Report (2013) (1)
Financial resources and charitable contributions of retired households (2005) (1)
Political trials and the social construction of deviance (1984) (1)
Money and hyperagency: The worldly empowerment of wealth (1991) (1)
Charitable Giving by State : New Methods and Measures for Geographic Giving Relative to Income (2017) (1)
Peter Townsend. Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living. Pp. 1216. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1979. $37.50. Paperbound, $15.95 (1981) (1)
Workers' Earnings and Corporate Economic Structure.By Randy Hodson. Academic Press, 1983. 242 pp. $29.50 (1985) (0)
Contrasting Views: The Impact of Estate-Tax Repeal. (2002) (0)
Work and Time@@@Work Sharing: Issues, Policy Options and Prospects.@@@Job and Income Security for Unemployed Workers: Some New Directions.@@@Work Patterns: An Economic Analysis. (1983) (0)
Towards a general theory of the philanthropic activities of the wealthy Authors : (2015) (0)
Wealth Transfer Estimates: 2001 to 2055 Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area (2006) (0)
Wealth transfer estimates: 2001 to 2055 St. Louis metropolitan area (2004) (0)
Knowing the Poor: A Case Study in Textual Reality Construction.By Bryan S. Green. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983. 221 pp. $29.95 (1987) (0)
Wealth Transfer Estimates : 2001 to 2055 (2004) (0)
Capacity for care: Today, yesterday, and tomorrow (2011) (0)
The unemployment and reemployment experiences of Michigan auto workers: Preliminary report on the Michigan auto industry worker study (1984) (0)
1998 study on wealth and responsibility survey (2001) (0)
Book Review (1997) (0)
How to Think Through Using Resources That Exceed My Personal Needs? (2018) (0)
The Political Economy of Organizational Change: Urban Institutional Response to the War on Poverty. (1983) (0)
The sense and sensibility of religion: Retrieving spiritual experience as an authentic sociological variable (1996) (0)
A New Model and New Findings for the Continuing Wealth Transfer in the U.S. and Selected States. (2012) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1983) (0)
What The Recession Wrought for Income, Wealth and Philanthropy: Findings from the Federal Reserve 2007/2009 Panel Study (2013) (0)
The cultural horizons of charitable giving in an age of affluence: The leading questions of the 21st century (2009) (0)
On the Road (1986) (0)
SC715: THEORY PROSEMINAR I Syllabus, Assignments, Books (2012) (0)

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