Mark Stern
Biographic Data
| ID | 3801170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Stern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Stern |
| SIGNATURE | STERN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8446-9428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1892 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Kugel as Continuity
Not your grandma’s pickles. (Oh. No. Wait. They actually are. (Kinda.))
In a pickle
Examining early power dynamics within societies to protect children from cruelty
This work examines power dynamics at play in the early child-saving movement as illuminated in the case records and annual reports of the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Cruelty (SPCC) from 1878 to 1881 and triangulated with other historical records. 1 We draw on ecological systems theory and urban ecology to examine social and spatial relationships between child-saving institutions, communities, and individuals and families. The pa…
Cognitive decline in mid-life
This study assessed specific cognitive impairments within a primarily female, hypothyroid population, while controlling for factors that commonly contribute to cognitive decline. Participants ( N = 739) included 461 individuals with hypothyroidism. This study involved an online survey assessing several aspects of memory and cognition. Those with hypothyroidism generally scored worse on self-assessments of memory, higher perceived stress, high rat…
The great resignation in higher education
On closings
Do “Undocumented Aliens” Dream of Neoliberal Sheep
Dreams have long been thought to be a space of fantasy and utopic hope. From Paulo Freire to Gloria Anzaldúa to Robin Kelley, many scholars have related the ability to dream with the ability to act collectively, to self-actualize, and to call into being worlds yet to be realized—dreaming as a radical political act. What happens, then, when dreams lose their ability to sense outside of the existing order? What happens when dreams become a mere rec…
A new “culture war”
Michael Katz's Contribution to Social and Social Welfare History
Michael Katz began work on social welfare during the late 1970s with a project entitled “The Casualties of Industrialization.” That project led to a series of essays, Poverty and Policy in American History (Katz 1983), and a few years later to In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (Katz 1986). His reading in twentieth-century literature for Shadow —and the ideological and policy nostrums of the Reagan administration—allowed Katz to pivot to two books th…
Understanding the value of arts & culture
Published online at http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/documents/publications/cultural-value-project-final-report/The social value of the arts and culture has been a fraught topic for many years. During the 199
It’s 5
Final Thoughts on “From Urban as Site to Urban as Place”
On the charter question
This article brings two black intellectual traditions to bear on the question of charter schools: black Marxism and black nationalism. The authors examine the theoretical and rhetorical devices used to talk about charters schools by focusing on how notions of ‘black liberation’ are deployed by the charter movement, and to what end. The authors first use a black Marxism lens to illustrate the character of the racial and economic relationships faci…
Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy
Journal Article Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877–1917. Get access Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877–1917. (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 267. $37.00. Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Presence, Absence, and the Presently-Absent
One of the fundamental pedagogical questions in teaching about human rights, war, and global citizenship is how to educate students to care about strangers whom they may never know and whom they may assume they have nothing in common with. At its core, this is an ethical question that highlights a problem in articulating relations between self and other. This article proposes a type of deconstructive literacy that uses photographs depicting suffe…
We Can't Build Our Dreams On Suspicious Minds
Last fall, the author took his Politics and Education class to see Waiting For 'Superman.' This was a movie we had been preparing to see all semester. The class focused on reading contemporary educational policy as a symptom of neoliberal economic and political ideology. We went into the movie knowing what we were going to see and how to critique it. But a funny thing happened on our way out of the theater-many of us were crying. Despite all our …
Whores, men, and other misfits
The global attention focused on sexual violence in the DRC has not only contributed to an image of the Congolese army as a vestige of pre-modern barbarism, populated by rapists, and bearing no resemblance to the world of modern armies; it has also shaped gender and defence reform initiatives. These initiatives have become synonymous with combating sexual violence, reflecting an assumption that the gendered dynamics of the army are already known. …
Cultural Clusters
Cultural districts have attracted increased attention as an urban economic development strategy. Yet for the most part, cities have focused on the agglomeration of cultural assets to increase tourism or lure wary suburbanites downtown. This article examines an alternative use of the arts for community development: cultivating neighborhood cultural clusters with modest concentrations of cultural providers (both nonprofit and commercial), resident …
The Mexican Immigration Debate
This article uses census microdata to address key issues in the Mexican immigration debate. First, we find striking parallels in the experiences of older and newer immigrant groups with substantial progress among second- and subsequent-generation immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Mexican Americans. Second, we contradict a view of immigrant history that contends that early–twentieth–century immigrants from southern and eastern Europe…
Falling Far from the Tree
Employing the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series of the University of Minnesota, we chronicle the changing timing and duration of transitions to adulthood in the twentieth century. Successive generations of young Americans reinvented the transition to adulthood to accommodate shifts in the economy and the American state. The patterned choices of young people delineate three eras of social history in the twentieth century: the era of reciproci…
The New African American Inequality
Journal Article The New African American Inequality Get access Michael B. Katz, Michael B. Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Stern, Mark J. Stern professor of social welfare and history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie J. Fader Jamie J. Fader doctoral student in sociology Search for other works by this author …
Women and the Paradox of Economic Inequality in the Twentieth-Century
This article uses the history of women in twentieth-century United States to explore the paradox of inequality in American history: the coexistence of durable inequality with immense individual and group mobility. Using census data, the article traces inequality along four dimensions: participation, distribution, rewards, and differentiation. Differentiation, the article argues, resolves the paradox of inequality by showing how mobility reinforce…
Back to the Future? Manuel Castells' the Information Age and the Prospects for Social Welfare
(2000). BACK TO THE FUTURE? MANUEL CASTELLS' THE INFORMATION AGE AND THE PROSPECTS FOR SOCIAL WELFARE. Cultural Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 99-116
Philadelphia's progressive orphanage
Cultural Clusters
Cultural districts have attracted increased attention as an urban economic development strategy. Yet for the most part, cities have focused on the agglomeration of cultural assets to increase tourism or lure wary suburbanites downtown. This article examines an alternative use of the arts for community development: cultivating neighborhood cultural clusters with modest concentrations of cultural providers (both nonprofit and commercial), resident …
The New African American Inequality
Journal Article The New African American Inequality Get access Michael B. Katz, Michael B. Katz Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark J. Stern, Mark J. Stern professor of social welfare and history Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie J. Fader Jamie J. Fader doctoral student in sociology Search for other works by this author …
The Emergence of the Homeless as a Public Problem
Using the model of social problems developed by Herbert Blumer, this article examines the recent public attention directed at homelessness. Based on this analysis, the article places the homeless issue in historical perspective, arguing that it is an element of the recent reemergence of conservative political practices and the traditional style of American social welfare
It’s 5
Migration and the Social Order in Erie County, New York
Mass transiency remains the most striking and consistent finding to emerge from quantitative studies of Victorian North America. In almost every place where historians have looked at least half, often two thirds, of the adults present at one end of a decade had left ten years later, and rates based on shorter periods reveal a stream of people constantly flowing through nineteenth-century cities. Although 363,000 people lived in Boston in 1880 and…
Measuring Interparty Competition
Women and the Paradox of Economic Inequality in the Twentieth-Century
This article uses the history of women in twentieth-century United States to explore the paradox of inequality in American history: the coexistence of durable inequality with immense individual and group mobility. Using census data, the article traces inequality along four dimensions: participation, distribution, rewards, and differentiation. Differentiation, the article argues, resolves the paradox of inequality by showing how mobility reinforce…
On the charter question
This article brings two black intellectual traditions to bear on the question of charter schools: black Marxism and black nationalism. The authors examine the theoretical and rhetorical devices used to talk about charters schools by focusing on how notions of ‘black liberation’ are deployed by the charter movement, and to what end. The authors first use a black Marxism lens to illustrate the character of the racial and economic relationships faci…
Whores, men, and other misfits
The global attention focused on sexual violence in the DRC has not only contributed to an image of the Congolese army as a vestige of pre-modern barbarism, populated by rapists, and bearing no resemblance to the world of modern armies; it has also shaped gender and defence reform initiatives. These initiatives have become synonymous with combating sexual violence, reflecting an assumption that the gendered dynamics of the army are already known. …
Falling Far from the Tree
Employing the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series of the University of Minnesota, we chronicle the changing timing and duration of transitions to adulthood in the twentieth century. Successive generations of young Americans reinvented the transition to adulthood to accommodate shifts in the economy and the American state. The patterned choices of young people delineate three eras of social history in the twentieth century: the era of reciproci…
Presence, Absence, and the Presently-Absent
One of the fundamental pedagogical questions in teaching about human rights, war, and global citizenship is how to educate students to care about strangers whom they may never know and whom they may assume they have nothing in common with. At its core, this is an ethical question that highlights a problem in articulating relations between self and other. This article proposes a type of deconstructive literacy that uses photographs depicting suffe…
We Can't Build Our Dreams On Suspicious Minds
Last fall, the author took his Politics and Education class to see Waiting For 'Superman.' This was a movie we had been preparing to see all semester. The class focused on reading contemporary educational policy as a symptom of neoliberal economic and political ideology. We went into the movie knowing what we were going to see and how to critique it. But a funny thing happened on our way out of the theater-many of us were crying. Despite all our …
Society and Family Strategy
Women and the Postindustrial Welfare State
nomic growth and expanded social welfare spending led to further decline and, by 1969 the poverty rate had dropped to 12 percent.1 Since the early 1970s, however, social welfare expenditures have not been as effective in controlling poverty. Although the poverty rate for some groups—partic ularly the aged—continued to decline, by the end of the decade the overall poverty rate had begun to rise; by 1983 it had ex ceeded 15 percent. Since the Great…
The great resignation in higher education
Differential Fertility in Rural Erie County, New York 1855
Journal Article Differential Fertility in Rural Erie County, New York 1855 Get access Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Work and Department of History, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 4, Summer 1983, Pages 49–63, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.4.49 Published: 01 July 1983
Cognitive decline in mid-life
This study assessed specific cognitive impairments within a primarily female, hypothyroid population, while controlling for factors that commonly contribute to cognitive decline. Participants ( N = 739) included 461 individuals with hypothyroidism. This study involved an online survey assessing several aspects of memory and cognition. Those with hypothyroidism generally scored worse on self-assessments of memory, higher perceived stress, high rat…
Understanding the value of arts & culture
Published online at http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/documents/publications/cultural-value-project-final-report/The social value of the arts and culture has been a fraught topic for many years. During the 199
Poverty and the Life-Cycle, 1940-1960
Reprinted from Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 3, Spring 1991, pages 521-540.
Emperor Katz's New Clothes; Or with the Wizard in Oz
THIS BOOK IS THE PRODUCT of massive funding (it and its predecessor, The People of Hamilton, Canada West, acknowledge the support of five institutions of higher learning and four major grants/fellowships) as well as more than ten years of intensive research and collaboration. It would be surprising and shocking if historians and other social scientists could not find arguments, data, and perspectives in a volume of this nature that will enhance t…
Fertility, Class, and Industrial Capitalism
highest fertility rates in the world. In 1810 the number of children age 0-4 per 1,000 women age 20-44 was 1,358. By 1840, in only one generation, it had declined 20 percent, to 1,085. Between 1855 and 1915, the years with which this study is especially concerned, the annual birthrate among native whites in the United States declined from 42.8 to 26.2 per thousand, a drop of nearly 40 percent. Compared with other Western nations, America's extrao…
On closings
Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy
Journal Article Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877–1917. Get access Brent Ruswick. Almost Worthy: The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877–1917. (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xi, 267. $37.00. Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Back to the Future? Manuel Castells' the Information Age and the Prospects for Social Welfare
(2000). BACK TO THE FUTURE? MANUEL CASTELLS' THE INFORMATION AGE AND THE PROSPECTS FOR SOCIAL WELFARE. Cultural Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 99-116
Calculating Visions
Journal Article Calculating Visions: Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights. By Mark Stern. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xvi + 307 pp. Cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-8135-1743-5. Paper, $14.95, 0-8135-1744-3.) Get access Carl M. Brauer Carl M. Brauer Belmont, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1683–1684, https://doi.org/10.…
Hebräische Berichte über die Judenverfolgungen während der Kreuzzüge (Hebrew Documents on the Persecution of the Jews during the Crusades)
Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum
Measuring Interparty Competition
Aspects of Jewish Society The Priesthood and other Classes
Religion in Everyday Life
Economic Life in Palestine
Commentaries
Black-White Perceptions of Urban Priorities
T Is STUDY is concerned with the identification of the urban problems considered to be by black and white urban residents, and the impact of race, socioeconomic status and location of residence on the assessment of particular problems as priorities. It is generally accepted that we need to know what problems concern urban residents and along what lines they diverge in their rating of priorities. Such inquiry is of great practical as well as theor…
Population Persistence and Early Industrialization in a Canadian City
The high rate of population turnover in nineteenth-century North American cities no longer requires emphasis. However, students of historical migration have progressed very little beyond merely documenting its existence. As a result, the relationship of social, economic, and demographic factors to migration remains imperfectly understood, and the extent to which rates of population movement varied with economic growth, population size, or other f…
Population Persistence and Early Industrialization in a Canadian City
Migration and the Social Order in Erie County, New York
Mass transiency remains the most striking and consistent finding to emerge from quantitative studies of Victorian North America. In almost every place where historians have looked at least half, often two thirds, of the adults present at one end of a decade had left ten years later, and rates based on shorter periods reveal a stream of people constantly flowing through nineteenth-century cities. Although 363,000 people lived in Boston in 1880 and…
Natives and Newcomers; The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Poughkeepsie
History and the Limits of Population Policy
A detailed case study of the fertility decline in the United States between 1855 and 1915 is summarized. Included in the data base are about 30000 families 1 of the largest data bases ever compiled for the historical study of fertility. Focus in this discussion is on the major trends in the data and what they convey regarding the interconnections between fertility social history research strategy and public policy. Between 1855 and 1915 the annua…
Class
Journal Article Class: Image and Reality in Britain, France and the USA since 1930. By Arthur Marwick. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. 416 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 1, June 1981, Pages 193–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Fertility, Class, and Industrial Capitalism
highest fertility rates in the world. In 1810 the number of children age 0-4 per 1,000 women age 20-44 was 1,358. By 1840, in only one generation, it had declined 20 percent, to 1,085. Between 1855 and 1915, the years with which this study is especially concerned, the annual birthrate among native whites in the United States declined from 42.8 to 26.2 per thousand, a drop of nearly 40 percent. Compared with other Western nations, America's extrao…
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
If All the World were Hamilton, Ontario and Buffalo, New York
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
Journal Article The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism. By Michael B. Katz, Michael J. Doucet, and Mark J. Stern. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. XV + 444 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $37.50.) Get access Paul E. Johnson Paul E. Johnson Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 982–983, https://doi.org/10.2…
Differential Fertility in Rural Erie County, New York 1855
Journal Article Differential Fertility in Rural Erie County, New York 1855 Get access Mark J. Stern Mark J. Stern University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Work and Department of History, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 4, Summer 1983, Pages 49–63, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.4.49 Published: 01 July 1983
The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism
Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution
The Emergence of the Homeless as a Public Problem
Using the model of social problems developed by Herbert Blumer, this article examines the recent public attention directed at homelessness. Based on this analysis, the article places the homeless issue in historical perspective, arguing that it is an element of the recent reemergence of conservative political practices and the traditional style of American social welfare
Capitalism, Class, and Social Statistics
Emperor Katz's New Clothes; Or with the Wizard in Oz
THIS BOOK IS THE PRODUCT of massive funding (it and its predecessor, The People of Hamilton, Canada West, acknowledge the support of five institutions of higher learning and four major grants/fellowships) as well as more than ten years of intensive research and collaboration. It would be surprising and shocking if historians and other social scientists could not find arguments, data, and perspectives in a volume of this nature that will enhance t…
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