Seymour Michael "Mike" Miller was an economic-political sociologist, activist, and emeritus professor of sociology at Boston University. Biography Miller's parents immigrated separately as teenagers from Tagancha and Stepanitz, two shtetls in the Ukraine. Miller grew up poor in Philadelphia and New York with prolonged periods of homelessness. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Princeton University and Columbia University, Miller taught for many years at Boston University in its Sociology Department, where he also chaired the department. Miller has also held distinguished research and teaching positions at numerous other universities, including Brooklyn College (1961–63), Syracuse University (1961–65), Boston College, New York University, the London School of Economics, Cornell University, and Harvard University. Miller co-founded Ideas for Action in the late 1940s, a magazine that brought social science ideas to union and community activists. He helped found Social Policy and remained a contributing editor for three decades. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, he organized and chaired a social science advisory committee to the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He also joined the Ford Foundation, and initiated the Foundation's support of Latino advocacy groups and grants to CORE, the National Urban League, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He wrote speeches for Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the economic policy appendix in Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, King's 1967 Annual Report to the SCLC. He was also active in the areas of welfare rights and anti-poverty policies. Miller was involved with national policy creation, community organizations, and consulting in China, Ireland, Israel, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Malaysia, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Miller was also a consultant or advisor to numerous international organizations, including the Comparative Research Program on Poverty, the International Social Science Council, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Home Office, Transitional Employment Enterprises, ATD-Le Quart Monde, and other national and local poverty organizations. The European Union's poverty policy is based on his perspectives. Miller’s contributions to academic sociology included the concepts of fieldwork over-rapport, educational credentialism, and identifying the birth of neoliberal ideology. Miller was especially well known for his writing on inequality. For example, in 1970, Miller and Roby published the book The Future of Inequality, in which they criticized the notion that poverty is only a matter of economic insufficiency. They argued that if the United States was to satisfy the needs of the poor,