Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
Professor

Department of Sociology
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720
(510) 643-8779

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Martín Sánchez-Jankowski who directs the Center for Urban Ethnography taught at Wellesley College and the University of New Mexico before coming to Berkeley in 1984. He received his BA from Western Michigan University, MA from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and his Ph.D. for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in political science and economics. His research has focused on inequality in advanced and developing societies with a particular interest in the sociology of poverty. His early research was on understanding how young Mexican Americans are socialized into the United States political system and the factors that have influence the process. Some of the results of this research are reported in City Bound: Urban Life and Political Attitudes Among Chicano Youth (1986). His later research has been directed toward understanding the social arrangements and behavior of people living in poverty. The first study of this research project was focused on urban gangs and the results were published in Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society (1991). Subsequent studies have been directed at education, some of the results being reported in a book co-authored with five other Berkeley faculty entitled Inequality By Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth (1996); underground economy; social change; and violence.

He has finished a book on social change in poverty neighborhoods and is completing book on inter-ethnic violence in poor urban schools. His current field research includes the study of education among the poor, and economic behavior among indigenous people in Fiji.

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