Devah Pager

Quick Facts

Full Name	Devah Pager
Occupation	Sociologist
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1972(1972-03-01)
Age	52
Date Of Death	November 2, 2018, Cambridge, MA
Birthplace	Honolulu
Country	United States
Birth City	Hawaii
Horoscope	Pisces

Devah Pager Biography

Devah Pager is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on March 1, 1972 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Devah Iwalani Pager (March 1, 1972 – November 2, 2018) was an American sociologist best known for her research on racial discrimination in employment and the American criminal justice system. She was Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Harvard University. She was a class of 2011 William T. Grant Scholar.

Devah Pager Net Worth

Devah Pager is one of the richest Sociologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Devah Pager 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

As part of her doctoral dissertation research Pager conducted an experiment in which she enlisted young men to pose as job applicants with similar characteristics. She found that a black applicant received a callback or job offer half as often as an equally qualified white applicant. A black applicant with a clean record got a callback or job offer about as often as a white applicant with a felony conviction. She later replicated the experiment in 2009 with Bruce Western and Naomi Sugle and found that black applicants without criminal records received fewer callbacks than white applicants with criminal records. The dissertation was awarded the “Best Dissertation Prize” by the American Sociological Association and was later published as a series of articles and a book, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

Pager earned her doctorate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2002. Prior to that she received master’s degrees from Stanford University and the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a B.A. in psychology from University of California, Los Angeles in 1993. She was a 1989 graduate of Punahou School.

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Don Ranked on the list of most popular Sociologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Devah Pager celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.

What did devah pager do?

Devah Pager’s research focused on institutions affecting racial stratification, including education, labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Pager’s recent research involved a series of field experiments studying discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders in the low-wage labor market.

What did devah pager find?

Conducting the experiment in Milwaukee, Pager found that white job applicants without a criminal record would be called back by employers with a job offer or for a second interview about 34 percent of the time. If the white applicant had a criminal record, the callback rate was only 17 percent.

What did Pager's experiment reveal quizlet?

An experiment by sociologist Devah Pager showed that when applying for jobs, a black man with no criminal history had the same success as: a white man with a felony conviction.

What is the difference between discrimination and prejudice?

While prejudice refers to biased thinking, discrimination consists of actions against a group of people. Discrimination can be based on age, religion, health, and other indicators; race-based laws against discrimination strive to address this set of social problems.

How do sociologists define race?

Race is a human classification system that is socially constructed to distinguish between groups of people who share phenotypical characteristics.