October 21, 2005
At U. of Pennsylvania, Charges of Plagiarism Divide the Sociology Department
CULTURES OF MISTRUST: A long-simmering dispute among members of the University of Pennsylvania's sociology department has come to a full boil. Late last month, in an e-mail message to the entire department, Harold J. Bershady, a professor emeritus who retired three years ago, accused one colleague of plagiarizing the concepts and insights of another.
The argument concerns Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Kathryn Edin, an associate professor of
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