![]() ![]() ![]() In On the Run, Goffman does not just recount the stories of men and women that were at one point ‘on the run’ from the law enforcement officials in Philadelphia. ![]() Alice Goffman, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and daughter of sociologists Erving Goffman and Gillian Sankoff, takes up her discipline’s special role of informing Americans in her book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, the culmination of six years the author spent studying a poor, predominately African American community in Philadelphia. Sociologists thus occupy a special place in shaping and reshaping the nature of public debate. Of all the disciplines in the humanities, sociology is particularly well-poised to provide the academy and policy makers with appropriately timed, persuasively human, and powerful scholarship that can carve out space for informed debate in the public square. ![]()
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