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Sociology and social policy : essays on community, economy, and society /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Table of Contents; 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 Problems10. 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' Multi-Field Sociological Career.