media and liked to write for general audiences, including a regular column for the British magazine New Society. In 1960, for Current Sociology (Vol. IX, No. 1; entire issue), Miller wrote the first comparative study of social mobility, "Comparative Social Mobility: A Trend Report,” pointing out that, contrary to the myth, the rate of downward mobility frequently exceeds the level of upward mobility. His books include: S. M. Miller (editor), Max Weber: A Reader (1963). S. M. Miller and Alvin W. Gouldner (editors), Applied Sociology: Opportunities and Problems (1966). S. M. Miller and Frank Riessman (editors), Social Class and Social Policy (1968). S. M. Miller and Pamela Roby (authors), The Future of Inequality (1970). S. M. Miller and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (authors), Recapitalizing America: Alternatives to the Corporate Distortion of National Policy (1983). Zsuzsa Ferge and S.M. Miller (editors), Dynamics of Deprivation (1987). Else Oyen, S. M. Miller, and Syed Abdus Samad (editors), Poverty: A Global Review: Handbook on International Poverty Research (1996). S. M. Miller and Anthony J. Savoie (authors), Respect and Rights: Class, Race, and Gender Today (2002). S. M. Miller, No Permanent Abode: Autobiographical Writings (2019, Introduction by Pamela Roby). References 1922 births 2021 deaths Boston University faculty American sociologists Brooklyn College alumni American people of Ukrainian descent People from New York City