Early Life and Education
John B. Stephenson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on September 26, 1937.
He earned a B.A. degree in sociology from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1959, and M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation, a community study of Celo, North Carolina, became his first book, Shiloh: A Mountain Community (1968).
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