H Silver
Biographic Data
| ID | 2935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Silver |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Silver |
| SIGNATURE | SILVER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5130-4192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Social Exclusion
Social exclusion is a rupturing of the social bond, that is, a multidimensional process of declining participation, access, and solidarity. At the societal level, it reflects circumscribed social cohesion or integration. At the institutional and group mesolevel, exclusion enforces membership boundaries, eligibility rules, and social norms. At the individual level, it refers to the incapacity to participate in normatively expected social activitie…
Critical juncture or reset to normal? Pandemic responses to homelessness in the federal states of Germany and Italy
The global COVID-19 pandemic interacted with existing societal challenges, including homelessness, to create a potentially transformative moment for public policy. Framed within the broader concept of a “polycrisis”—a convergence of interwoven and compounding crises—this study asks whether the pandemic produced a “critical juncture” in two European federal states, Germany and Italy, one that durably moved homelessness policy in a new direction. D…
Re-labeling the underclass
Disasters
Disasters are sudden, unexpected, localized, rare, and acute events that disrupt both the environment and social structure, inflicting substantial harm on individuals, groups, and property. They differ from accidents and emergencies in the greater magnitude of their impacts. The number of disasters has increased, especially since 1990, as posited by risk society and shock doctrine theory. Social constructions of risk, organizational cultures, and…
Soziale Bewegungen, die Wohnungsfrage und kritische Theorie – ein Gespräch in Erinnerung an Peter Marcuse
Peter Marcuse war ein wichtiger Autor in der internationalen kritischen Stadt- und Wohnforschung. Seine Arbeiten, u. a. zu Gentrifizierung und Wohnungspolitik, boten immer wieder Anknüpfungspunkte auch für soziale städtische Bewegungen in New York, Berlin und anderen Städten. Anlässlich seines Todes im März 2022 diskutieren vier renommierte Wissenschaftler:innen über sein Werk und dessen Bedeutung für ihr eigenes Schaffen und für aktuelle Kämpfe …
Working from Home
Hilary Silver on pandemic trends
Homelessness, Politics, and Policy
When COVID-19 began to spread in the United States, the first public health orders were to hunker down at home. But for the vulnerable people experiencing homelessness, especially those sleeping outdoors, retreating to a private dwelling was not possible. This suggests that places with greater homelessness would also have elevated COVID-19 infections. This paper examines how spatial variation in unsheltered homelessness was related to the cumulat…
Left-Wing Xenophobia in Europe
Given rising populist nationalism and multiplying meanings of "right" and "left," this paper assesses whether Europeans who identify as extremely left-wing on the political spectrum hold anti-immigrant attitudes. In contrast to right-wing xenophobes, we further examine whether the political left, who conventionally emphasize class conflict, oppose immigrants less for cultural reasons and more for materialist reasons. We also consider whether soci…
Social Exclusion
Social exclusion is a multidimensional relational process of severing social ties, preventing access to institutions, denying opportunities for social participation, and impairing social cohesion and solidarity. It contributes to and is a result of poverty. Exclusion may be based upon cultural identities as well as on age, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, unemployment, and other stigmatized categories. These numerous dimensions of exclusio…
Carving out the commons
Sociology
Moral dialogues are one mechanism of cultural change, allowing communities to resolve conflicts and revise the fundamental norms and values governing their members’ relationships. This essay illustrates the moral dialogue process with the debates over sexual harassment in the Trump era. Victimized women launched a transnational “megalogue” that pervaded politics, business, entertainment, academia, and other spheres. It transformed norms, institut…
Dimensions of Youth Exclusion in the Middle East
Social Exclusion
Social exclusion is a multidimensional, relational process of denying opportunities for social participation, severing social bonds, and impairing social solidarity. Exclusion may be based upon racial, ethnic, linguistic, caste, religious, and other cultural identities as well as upon age, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, unemployment, socioeconomic conditions, and place of residence dimensions that tend to overlap, intersect, and accumula…
Poverty Policy
Disasters
Disasters are sudden, unexpected, localized, rare, and acute events that disrupt the environment and the social structure and inflict substantial harm on individuals, groups, and property. They differ from accidents in the greater scale of their individual and collective impact; and they also differ from environmental hazards, which cause harm over longer periods of time. Roughly speaking, disasters cause a hundred or more deaths in a short perio…
Progress for the Poor
Social Exclusion
Obama's Urban Policy
Divided Cities in the Middle East
continuestopromoteresearchonurbansociallifebeyondthe United States, featuring three articles on Jerusalem and Beirut, divided cities in theMiddle East.This introduction places the articles in the broader context of two prominent urbanthemes. One is the distinctiveness of the ancient and ever-changing cities of the MiddleEast. Cities in the region certainly differ among themselves, but share some commonali-ties in history, spatial structure, polit…
Understanding Social Inclusion and Its Meaning for Australia
This paper considers the various meanings of ‘social inclusion’ from both sociological and policy viewpoints. It shows how the perspective has been translated into particular policies and approaches to governance. After drawing some lessons from the policy experiences of other countries, it weighs the appropriateness of a ‘social inclusion agenda’ for Australia, a country with a particular history of social exclusion – of prisoners, indigenous pe…
Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation
Participation is a popular buzzword in contemporary urban studies. For some, it implies a deepening of democratic deliberation; for others, it represents grassroots resistance to powerful elites and neoliberalization. Rather than seeing participation as either consensus-building or conflicts of interest, as either a top-down or bottom-up process, the evidence suggests that it can be all of these. By adopting a more dynamic, pragmatic, and empiric…
The Social Integration of Germany since Unification
Germans are inordinately preoccupied with the question of national integration. From the Kulturkampf to the Weimar Republic to the separation of East and West, social fractiousness is deeply ingrained in German history, giving rise to a desire to unify the "incomplete nation." Yet, the impulse to integrate German society has long been ambivalent. Between Bismarck and the Nazi interregnum, top-down efforts to force Germans to integrate threatened …
Social exclusion and social capital
Social Exclusion
Social exclusion is a rupturing of the social bond. It is a process of declining participation, access, and solidarity. At the societal level, it reflects inadequate social cohesion or integration. At the individual level, it refers to the incapacity to participate in normatively expected social activities and to build meaningful social relations
Disasters
Disasters are sudden, unexpected, localized, rare, and acute events that disrupt the environment and social structure, and inflict substantial harm on individuals, groups, and property. They differ from accidents in the greater scale of their individual and collective impacts. Roughly speaking, such catastrophes entail over a hundred deaths in a short period of time
Participation in Urban Contention and Deliberation
Participation is a popular buzzword in contemporary urban studies. For some, it implies a deepening of democratic deliberation; for others, it represents grassroots resistance to powerful elites and neoliberalization. Rather than seeing participation as either consensus-building or conflicts of interest, as either a top-down or bottom-up process, the evidence suggests that it can be all of these. By adopting a more dynamic, pragmatic, and empiric…
Homework and domestic work
Social exclusion and social capital
National Conceptions of the New Urban Poverty
Race and Job Dismissals in a Federal Bureaucracy
We examine the racial differential in job dismissals in an unexpected setting the federal government. Blacks were more than twice as likely to be fired, after controlling for human capital variables, job tenure, detailed job title, union protection, absenteeism, and incidence of accidents, injuries, and disciplinary actions. That black postal workers in a large northeastern city were more likely to be fired than their white counterparts suggests …
Divided Cities in the Middle East
continuestopromoteresearchonurbansociallifebeyondthe United States, featuring three articles on Jerusalem and Beirut, divided cities in theMiddle East.This introduction places the articles in the broader context of two prominent urbanthemes. One is the distinctiveness of the ancient and ever-changing cities of the MiddleEast. Cities in the region certainly differ among themselves, but share some commonali-ties in history, spatial structure, polit…
Flexible Work and Housework
Understanding Social Inclusion and Its Meaning for Australia
This paper considers the various meanings of ‘social inclusion’ from both sociological and policy viewpoints. It shows how the perspective has been translated into particular policies and approaches to governance. After drawing some lessons from the policy experiences of other countries, it weighs the appropriateness of a ‘social inclusion agenda’ for Australia, a country with a particular history of social exclusion – of prisoners, indigenous pe…
Obama's Urban Policy
From Kreuzberg to Marzahn
Ethnic enclaves in West Berlin and now, East Berlin are located in denigrated areas of high unemployment, poverty, and devalued or high-rise public housing, but they are also places where immigrants are slowly integrating into the larger city and German society. Despite different national origins and different conditions and periods in which they arrived, socially excluded Vietnamese, Russian, and other migrants to East Berlin are following local…
Left-Wing Xenophobia in Europe
Given rising populist nationalism and multiplying meanings of "right" and "left," this paper assesses whether Europeans who identify as extremely left-wing on the political spectrum hold anti-immigrant attitudes. In contrast to right-wing xenophobes, we further examine whether the political left, who conventionally emphasize class conflict, oppose immigrants less for cultural reasons and more for materialist reasons. We also consider whether soci…
Is Industrial Policy Possible in the United States? The Defeat of Rhode Island's Greenhouse Compact
Social Integration in the "New" Berlin
Despite its highly visible physical reunification, Berlin has social fault lines that seriously challenge the city?s integration. This article reviews the multiple cleavages that crisscross Berlin?s social fabric and assesses whether and how these divides are being bridged. East-West, neighborhood, religious, national/ethnic, and socioeconomic fractures remain wide. Even the social construction of the city?s history and the embedding of collectiv…
Dissecting Types of Professional Schools
Professional sch'ools of different types vary greatly in some of their characteristics. Engineering schools are much larger than theological seminaries; medical schools are most affluent; the sex composition of nursing schools differs from that of other professional schools. To ascertain what it is about the various professions for which the schools provide training that produced these differences, types are dissected according to analytical prop…
Rhode Island Politics and Government
Journal Article Rhode Island Politics and Government Get access Rhode Island Politics and Government by Michael P. Sullivan. New York, Palgrave, 2001. 317 pp. $59.95. Hilary Silver Hilary Silver Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 678–680, https://doi.org/10.2307/798251 Published: 15 February 2013
A New Urban and Regional Hierarchy? Impacts of Modernization, Restructuring and the End of Bipolarity
Age Relationships on the Draw‐a‐person Test
Dissecting Types of Professional Schools
Professional sch'ools of different types vary greatly in some of their characteristics. Engineering schools are much larger than theological seminaries; medical schools are most affluent; the sex composition of nursing schools differs from that of other professional schools. To ascertain what it is about the various professions for which the schools provide training that produced these differences, types are dissected according to analytical prop…
Economics and the Family
Is Industrial Policy Possible in the United States? The Defeat of Rhode Island's Greenhouse Compact
Research in Urban Policy
A New Urban and Regional Hierarchy? Impacts of Modernization, Restructuring and the End of Bipolarity
Philadelphia
List of Tables and Figures Preface Series Preface 1. The Legacy of the Industrial City Population and Settlement Patterns Machine Politics in the Industrial Era The Transition to Postindustrialism Declining Economic Opportunity and Racial Conflict The Central Argument of the Book 2. Economic Erosion and the Growth of Inequality The National Context Philadelphia's Special Vulnerability to National Trends The Changing Distribution of Jobs in the Po…
Race and Job Dismissals in a Federal Bureaucracy
We examine the racial differential in job dismissals in an unexpected setting the federal government. Blacks were more than twice as likely to be fired, after controlling for human capital variables, job tenure, detailed job title, union protection, absenteeism, and incidence of accidents, injuries, and disciplinary actions. That black postal workers in a large northeastern city were more likely to be fired than their white counterparts suggests …
Homework and domestic work
Mayors and Money
Chicago and New York share similar backgrounds but have had strikingly different fates. Tracing their fortunes from the 1930s to the present day, Ester R. Fuchs examines key policy decisions which have influenced the political structures of these cities and guided them into, or clear of, periods of economic crisis
National Conceptions of the New Urban Poverty
Flexible Work and Housework
The Greatest of Evils
This volume, develops three principal themes. First, poverty is not monolithic; secondly, the so-called underclass within the poverty population represents a new and corrosive development; and, third, the War on Poverty of the 1960s offered a boldness of vision that today's poverty policies tend to lack. The authors show how the social and economic costs of poverty-related problems were linked at the policy level to finding useable remedies. The …
Rhode Island Politics and Government
Journal Article Rhode Island Politics and Government Get access Rhode Island Politics and Government by Michael P. Sullivan. New York, Palgrave, 2001. 317 pp. $59.95. Hilary Silver Hilary Silver Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 678–680, https://doi.org/10.2307/798251 Published: 15 February 2013
Urban Ethnographies in the United States
Books reviewed in this article: Gamm, Gerald, Urban Exodus: why the Jews left Boston and the Catholics stayed Pattillo‐McCoy, Mary, Black picket fences: privilege and peril among the black middle class
Social Exclusion
In the United States poverty is traced with a single income number. But the authors argue that there is a more useful way of measuring deprivation: social exclusion. In Europe, governments are increasingly trying to measure it and come up with policies to limit it.
New York and Los Angeles
Social Integration in the "New" Berlin
Despite its highly visible physical reunification, Berlin has social fault lines that seriously challenge the city?s integration. This article reviews the multiple cleavages that crisscross Berlin?s social fabric and assesses whether and how these divides are being bridged. East-West, neighborhood, religious, national/ethnic, and socioeconomic fractures remain wide. Even the social construction of the city?s history and the embedding of collectiv…
From Kreuzberg to Marzahn
Ethnic enclaves in West Berlin and now, East Berlin are located in denigrated areas of high unemployment, poverty, and devalued or high-rise public housing, but they are also places where immigrants are slowly integrating into the larger city and German society. Despite different national origins and different conditions and periods in which they arrived, socially excluded Vietnamese, Russian, and other migrants to East Berlin are following local…
Social Exclusion
Social exclusion is a rupturing of the social bond. It is a process of declining participation, access, and solidarity. At the societal level, it reflects inadequate social cohesion or integration. At the individual level, it refers to the incapacity to participate in normatively expected social activities and to build meaningful social relations
Disasters
Disasters are sudden, unexpected, localized, rare, and acute events that disrupt the environment and social structure, and inflict substantial harm on individuals, groups, and property. They differ from accidents in the greater scale of their individual and collective impacts. Roughly speaking, such catastrophes entail over a hundred deaths in a short period of time
Social exclusion and social capital
Obama's Urban Policy
Divided Cities in the Middle East
continuestopromoteresearchonurbansociallifebeyondthe United States, featuring three articles on Jerusalem and Beirut, divided cities in theMiddle East.This introduction places the articles in the broader context of two prominent urbanthemes. One is the distinctiveness of the ancient and ever-changing cities of the MiddleEast. Cities in the region certainly differ among themselves, but share some commonali-ties in history, spatial structure, polit…
Understanding Social Inclusion and Its Meaning for Australia
This paper considers the various meanings of ‘social inclusion’ from both sociological and policy viewpoints. It shows how the perspective has been translated into particular policies and approaches to governance. After drawing some lessons from the policy experiences of other countries, it weighs the appropriateness of a ‘social inclusion agenda’ for Australia, a country with a particular history of social exclusion – of prisoners, indigenous pe…
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