Frank Furstenberg

Frank Furstenberg
Frank F. Furstenberg, in July 2015
Born
Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr.

1940 (age 83–84)
Baltimore, MD
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materHaverford College (B.A. 1961) and Columbia University (PhD 1967)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Main interestsSociology

Frank Folke Furstenberg Jr. (born 1940) is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology, Emeritus,[1] at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods and adolescent sexual behavior. Furstenberg has written extensively on social change, transition to adulthood, divorce, remarriage and intergenerational relations.[2][3][4] Furstenberg is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Academy of Political and Social Science.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ "University of Pennsylvania, Department of Sociology".
  2. ^ Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr. (1979). Unplanned parenthood : the social consequences of teenage childbearing. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-911030-0.
  3. ^ Andrew J. Cherlin; Frank F. Furstenberg Jr (1992). The new American grandparent : a place in the family, a life apart (1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-60838-2.
  4. ^ Furstenberg, Frank F.; Brooks-Gunn, J.; Morgan, S. Philip (1990). Adolescent mothers in later life ([Repr.] ed.). Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-37968-7.
  5. ^ "National Academy of Medicine".[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences".[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "American Academy of Political and Social Science". Archived from the original on 2012-05-17.