Frances Fox Piven

Frances Fox Piven, född 10 oktober 1932 i Calgary, Alberta, Kanada, är en amerikansk professor i statsvetenskap och sociologi vid The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven, 2012.
Född	10 oktober 1932 (91 år) Calgary, Kanada
Medborgare i	USA
Utbildad vid	University of Chicago Newtown High School
Sysselsättning	Statsvetare, sociolog, universitetslärare
Befattning
Ordförande för American Sociological Association (2007–2007)
Arbetsgivare	City University of New York
Make	Richard Cloward
Utmärkelser
Guggenheimstipendiet (1973) Bronislaw Malinowski-prisen (2015)
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Aktivism

Under hela sin karriär har Piven kombinerat vetenskapligt arbete med politisk aktivism.

Pris

• American Sociological Association Career Award for the Practice of Sociology (2000)
• Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award of the Caucus for a New Political Science of the American Political Science Association (2004)
• Mary Lepper Award of the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association (1998)
• American Sociology Association Lifetime Achievement Award for Political Sociology
• Tides Foundation Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy (1995)
• Annual Award of the National Association of Secretaries of State (1994)
• President's Award of the American Public Health Association (1993)
• Lee/Founders Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
• Eugene V. Debs Foundation Prize
• C. Wright Mills Award.

Bibliografi

• Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies (Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-19-520927-3)
• The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism (New Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-59558-092-4)
• Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7425-6316-2)

Med Richard Cloward:

• Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (Pantheon, 1971, 2nd ed: Vintage, 1993, ISBN 978-0-679-74516-7)
• Poor People's Movements: Why they Succeed, How they Fail (Pantheon, 1977, ISBN 978-0-394-72697-7)
• New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences (Pantheon, 1982, ISBN 978-0-394-70647-4)
• Why Americans Don't Vote (Pantheon, 1988, ISBN 978-0-394-55396-2)
• The Breaking of the American Social Compact (New Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-56584-476-6)
• Why Americans Still Don't Vote: And Why Politicians Want it That Way (Beacon, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8070-0449-4)

Med Lee Staples and Richard Cloward:

• Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing (Praeger, 1984, ISBN 978-0-275-91800-2)

With Lorraine Minnite and Margaret Groarke:

• Keeping Down the Black Vote: Race and the Demobilization of American Voters (New Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59558-354-3)

The Frances Fox Piven Papers are held by Smith College .