Sociology and Social Policy (eBook)

Essays on Community, Economy, and Society

Herbert J. Gans (Autor)

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2017
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
9780231545099 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career—the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class—to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology.

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This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans's wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and Social Policy explicates and helps solve social problems by presenting a range of studies on what people, institutions, and social structures do with, for, and against one another. These works from across Gans's areas of interest-the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class-together make a powerful call to action for the field of sociology.

Autor

Herbert J. Gans is Robert S. Lynd Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Columbia University. His many books include People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems (1991) and The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community (Legacy Edition, 2017), both from Columbia University Press.

Inhalt

Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: The City1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical AnalysisPart II: Poverty5. Studying the Bottom of American Society6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty7. The Benefits of PovertyPart III: Jobs and the Political Economy8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market’s Invisible Discards9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy’s Problems12. High School Economics Texts and the American EconomyPart IV: Race and Class13. Race as Class14. “Whitening” and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical AnalysisPart V: Ethnicity16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America?Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas—a Multi-Field Sociological Career

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.9.2017
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9780231545099 / 9780231545099