Charles Hirschman

Boeing International Professor in the Department of sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy, studies issues of ethnic and social stratification, social mobility, and immigration in the U.S. and internationally. His current research focuses on immigration and ethnicity in U.S. and social change in Southeast Asia.

Major Research Projects:

• Vietnam Longitudinal Study
• Southeast Asia Fertility Project
• The Transition to Higher Education in Washington State

Sample Publications:

Hirschman, C., (Forthcoming), The Structure of Teenage Employment: Social Background and the Jobs Held by High School Seniors, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.


Hirschman, C.; Massey, D. S., (Forthcoming), Peoples and Places: The New American Mosaic, New faces in new places : the changing geography of American immigration, Massey, D. S., Russell Sage Foundation, New York.


Hirschman, C., (2007), Immigration and an Aging America: Downward Spiral or Virtuous Circle?, Social structures : demographic changes and the well-being of older persons, Schaie, K. W.; Uhlenberg, P., Springer, New York.


Hirschman, C., (2007), The Impact of Immigration on American Society: Looking Backward to the Future, Transit - Europaische Revue, 32, 84-99.


Hirschman, C.; Edwards, J., (2007), Social Change in Southeast Asia, The Blackwell encyclopedia of sociology, Ritzer, G., 9, 4374-80, Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA.


Jacobson, M. F.; Hirschman, C., (2007), Book Reviews - Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post -- Civil Rights America, The American journal of Sociology, 113: 1, 274.

For a complete list of publications by Charles Hirschman, visit his page in the poverty research section of the website.

Relevant Courses:

• SOC 212: Introduction to Study of Comparative Social Change
• SOC 431: Fertility and Mortality
• SOC 432: Population and Modernization
• SOC 434: Vietnamese Society in Transition
• SOC 467: Immigration and Ethnicity
• SOC 470: Contemporary Southeast Asia
• SOC 513: Demography and Ecology

Contact Information:

Charles Hirschman
Email: charles@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/charles/
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