Eric Klinenberg

(1970) Sociologist

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Eric Klinenberg is a sociologist.

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Profession: Sociologist

About Eric Klinenberg

[Wikidata] American sociologist... | [Wikipedia] Eric M. Klinenberg is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban studies, culture, and media. He is currently Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Klinenberg is best known for his contributions as a public soci

Quotes by Eric Klinenberg

“recent decades, American utility companies have spent relatively little on research and development. One industry report estimates that, in 2009, research-and-development investments…

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Research and development

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“We were making some progress on climate-change adaptation in the late 1990s,” Klaus Jacob observed. “But September 11th set us back a…

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“More than one thousand people in excess of the July norm were admitted to inpatient units in local hospitals because of heatstroke,…

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Failure

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“The boys were already dead, though, and when the paramedics arrived, they determined that the body temperatures were 107 and 108 degrees.”

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Body temperature

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“It’s like an assembly line in there,” one officer said. In many cases police delivered decomposed bodies to the morgue several days…

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Assembly line

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“They determined that the death count based solely on the medical autopsies had underestimated the damage. Between 14 and 20 July, 739…

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Death

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“The disaster also has a social etiology, which no meteorological study, medical autopsy, or epidemiological report can uncover. The human dimensions of…

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Death

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