Gans Sociology and Social Policy

Essays on Community, Economy, and Society
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54509-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gans, Herbert J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I: The City
1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements
2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View
3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place
4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis
Part II: Poverty
5. Studying the Bottom of American Society
6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty
7. The Benefits of Poverty
Part III: Jobs and the Political Economy
8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market’s Invisible Discards
9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems
10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?
11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy’s Problems
12. High School Economics Texts and the American Economy
Part IV: Race and Class
13. Race as Class
14. “Whitening” and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy
15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical Analysis
Part V: Ethnicity
16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity
17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America?
Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas—a Multi-Field Sociological Career

Über Autor(innen)

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.