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William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is a significant American sociologist.
In The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987), Wilson was one of the first to enunciate at length the "spatial mismatch" theory for the development of a ghetto underclass.
Wilson was an original board member of the progressive Century Institute.