Sociologist Dalton Conley to Lecture on Family Dynamics At Pitt March 21
PITTSBURGH—Dalton Conley, professor of sociology at New York University and director of its Center for Advanced Social Science Research, will be a guest speaker at the University of Pittsburgh from 12:30 to 2 p.m. March 21, in the Kurtzman Room of the William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. Conley's talk, titled "The Family Home as Level Playing Field—Not" is free and open to the public.
Conley's research focuses on family dynamics and what role family size, parental time and attention, and family financial resources play in the success of an individual child. His most recent book is The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why (Pantheon Books, 2004).
Conley has received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and other publications. His appearance is part of the Reed Smith Spring 2005 Lunchtime Speaker Series, and is presented through Pitt's Center on Race and Social Problems within the School of Social Work. Lunch will be provided at the lecture, and registration is not required. For more information, call 412-624-7382.
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