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Making sense of America : sociological analyses and essays
- Title
- Making sense of America : sociological analyses and essays / Herbert J. Gans.
- Author
- Gans, Herbert J.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©1999.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 361 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Legacies of social thought
- Uniform Title
- Legacies of social thought
- Subject
- Since 1945
- Minorities > United States
- Sociology > United States
- Minorities
- Social conditions
- Sociology
- Armut
- Ethnische Gruppe
- Soziologie
- Sociale problemen
- Stadscultuur
- Sociologie
- Minorités > États-Unis
- Sociologie > États-Unis
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-
- United States
- USA
- États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945- ..
- USA
- Genre/Form
- v – Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-360).
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword / Charles Lemert -- pt. I. The Ethnographies. 1. The Destruction of Boston's West End. 2. Suburban Homogeneity and Conformity: Myth and Reality. 3. Values in the News -- pt. II. Urban Poverty -- Theory and Policy. 4. The Positive Functions of Poverty. 5. The Federal Role in Solving America's Urban Problems. 6. Time for an Employees' Lobby. 7. Some Utopian Scenarios -- pt. III. Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, and Immigration. 8. The Birth and Growth of a Suburban Jewish Community. 9. Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America. 10. Second-Generation Decline: Scenarios for the Economic and Ethnic Futures of Post-1965 American Immigrants.
- ISBN
- 0847690407
- 9780847690404
- 0847690415
- 9780847690411
- LCCN
- 98036860
- OCLC
- ocm39640024
- 39640024
- SCSB-8965452
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library