Anderson received a bachelor s degree from Indiana University, a master s from the University of Chicago, and a doctorate from Northwestern University, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow. He is the Charles and William Day Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also won the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at Pennsylvania Anderson is the director of the Philadelphia Ethnography Project, associate editor of Qualitative Sociology, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Anderson said there are two codes for the street - decent or street. Street youth live for respect even if they must fight and kill.
Decent youth try to work hard in school and excel.
However the decent children may be drawn to the other lifestyle. A reception will follow his talk on the third floor of Wiekamp Hall.