Other recent books include, Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media (Holt and Co., 2007) and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which received the prize for Best Book in Sociology and Anthropology from the Association of American Publishers, the Robert Park Book Award from the American Sociological Association, the Komarovsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society, the Biannual Book Award from the Urban Affairs Association, the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Award from the British Sociological Association, and was a "Favorite Book" selection of the Chicago Tribune. He reported on parts of this research for NPR?s This American Life. He is conducting a multi-year study of the extraordinary rise in living alone. culture, business, and politics.Įric Klinenberg is professor of sociology and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. Klinenberg recently published book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (Penguin Press, 2012) explores the impact that living alone is having on U.S. His project, Social Isolation in American Life, examines how people experience isolation, using multiple research methods to build a knowledge base about living and dying alone. offers a new approach to understanding the emergence of social isolation and its effects on health, especially among the elderly and disadvantaged in American cities. The common problems they suffer - depression, strained or severed family ties, minimal contact with friends, and difficulties navigating the health care system - often go undetected or are ignored by health care professionals.
More Americans live and die alone than at any time in our nation's history.
Investigator Award Social Isolation in American Life Director of the Institute for Public KnowledgeĮmail: Discipline: Sociology Expertise: Health Risks, Urban Health, Media and Health, Neighborhood Health
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