Matthew Desmond is the author of which sociological work?

• A. Evicted
• B. Invisible Man
• C. The Power Elite
• D. The Sociological Imagination

Answer: (A)

Matthew Desmond is the author of Evicted, a detailed sociological study that follows families in Milwaukee as they contend with eviction and housing precarity. The book is built on extensive fieldwork and interviews, using those real-life stories to show how eviction acts as a structural condition that shapes health, safety, and life chances for the poor. This distinguishes it from other works with similar-sounding titles or themes but by different authors. Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison about race and identity; The Power Elite and The Sociological Imagination are foundational sociological texts by C. Wright Mills that discuss power, society, and methods of sociology. Evicted stands out as Desmond’s empirical, contemporary examination of housing and poverty.