Q:Read the bio below and try to give details on david a. karp 's: - employer - name - website - alma mater - occupation Bio: david a. karp is a professor of sociology at boston college where he has taught since 1971 . he received his b.a. degree from harvard university in 1966 and his ph.d. in sociology from new york university in 1971 . he has written or co-authored nine books and more than fifty journal articles and book chapters . his work appears in such periodicals as symbolic interaction , journal of contemporary ethnography , journal of qualitative health research , the gerontologist , and the international journal of aging and human development . his work has largely clustered in three areas : urban life and culture , aging , and the study of mental health and illness . professor karp 's career-long research work is both motivated by and advances '' symbolic interaction theory , '' sociology 's distinctive version of social psychology . his diverse writings are animated and united by the core '' social constructionist '' question , '' how do people make sense of complicated life circumstances and how are their behaviors , emotions , and attitudes linked to such interpretive processes ? '' over the course of more than 40 years he has explored a variety of topics . his doctoral dissertation on the nature of '' urban anonymity '' involved participant observation in new york 's times square area . this initial interest in the social psychology of city life led to the publication of his co-authored and widely respected book entitled being urban : a sociology of city life . as an assistant professor at boston college he also co-authored a book on the '' sociology of everyday life . '' always using his sociology to reflect on issues of personal significance , professor karp later collaborated on experiencing the life cycle : a social psychology of aging . this book challenged deterministic notions of a universal aging process . in the early 1980s professor karp wrote a series of path-breaking papers on the social and emotional lives of people in their fifties , at that point a neglected moment in the life course . among the...
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- employer is boston college- name is david a. karp- website is -lsb- http://www2.bc.edu/~karp/ www2.bc.edu / ~ karp -rsb-- alma mater is harvard university- occupation is professor of sociology