Max A. Greenberg
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About Max
Greenberg researches and teaches in the areas of political sociology, youth and families, and gender. His most recent book examines the reorganization of state efforts around short-term grants and fleeting programs.
Contributions
Why Supporting Young People Requires a Different Way of Thinking about Culture
Publications
Illuminates stories from life history interviews about men's varying pathways — including men of different racial/ethnic and class backgrounds — into anti-violence work. Explores the promise and strains of men's violence prevention work with boys and men in schools, college sports, fraternities, and the U.S. military.
Explores how program facilitators create and sustain a cultural frame of empowerment within the context of a school culture of control. Finds that, as facilitators narrowed and refined empowerment which emphasized student anonymity and leveling classroom authority, they temporarily subverted disciplinary and punitive mechanisms in ways that meaningfully impacted individuals.
Explores how short-term programs are experienced in the daily lives of the young people they were created to support. Goes beyond the narrow stories told about at-risk youth through data and in policy. Sketches a vivid portrait of young men and women coming of age and forming relationships in a world of abiding harm and fleeting, fragmented support.