Nee, Victor, 1945-

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Summary: Victor G. Nee is an American sociologist and professor at Cornell University, known for his work in economic sociology, inequality and immigration. He published a book with Richard Alba entitled Remaking the American Mainstream proposing a neo-assimilation theory to explain the assimilation of post-1965 immigrant minorities and the second generation. In 2012, he published Capitalism from Below co-authored with Sonja Opper examining the rise of economic institutions of capitalism in China. Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. Nee received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York ( 1994–1995), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1996–1997). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics by Lund University in Sweden in 2013. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][4][5]; Unknown [2]
Born: 1945 [2][5]
Country: Country unknown [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: sociologist [5]
Employer: Cornell University [5]
Educated at: Harvard University [5]; University of California, Los Angeles [5]; University of California, Santa Cruz [5]
Country of Education: United States [5]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. National Library of Korea; 5. Wikidata

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