Coleman, James S., 1926-1995

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Personal name heading	Coleman, James S., 1926-1995 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Coleman, James Samuel, 1926-1995
Birth date	1926-05-26
Death date	1995-03-25
Place of birth	Bedford, Ind.
Place of death	Chicago, Ill.
Affiliation	University of Chicago Johns Hopkins University National Opinion Research Center American Sociological Association
Found in	Political cleavage within the International Typographical Union, 1955: title page (James Samuel Coleman) Equality of educational opportunity, 1966: title page (James S. Coleman) Public and private schools, 1981: title page (James Coleman) Foundations of social theory, 1990: title page (James S. Coleman) Contemporary Authors Online, via WWW, October 3, 2012 (James S(amuel) Coleman; born May 12, 1926 in Bedford, Ind.; died of prostate cancer on March 25, 1995 in Chicago, Illinois; B.S., Purdue University, 1949; Ph. D., Columbia University, 1955; assistant professor of sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1956-1959; associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1959-1961; professor of sociology, 1961-1973; professor of sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1973-; Coleman is best remembered for his paper "Equality of Educational Opportuniy," which concluded that poor children benefit academically by being in integrated schools; in 1975, he issued another report stating that bussing was a failure, and that it prompted a mass exodus of whites from urban public schools; in 1981, he issued another controversial report in which he sought to illustrate the superiority of private over public education) StateUniversity.com, via WWW, October 3, 2012 (James S. Coleman (1926-1995); a major twentieth-century figure in the sociology of education, James S. Coleman was a social theorist and an empirical researcher with a prevailing interest in social problems in education-tackling issues that were sometimes unpopular; his major work was done as professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of Sociology (1960-1972) and at the University of Chicago in Sociology and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) as a research director (1956-1959 and 1973-1995); he published more than thirty books and many articles; besides being president of the American Sociological Association (1993-1997), he worked on the creation of the National Educational Longitudinal Study database, which he used extensively in his research)