Main entry:

Gans, Herbert J.

Title & Author:

Making sense of America : sociological analyses and essays / Herbert J. Gans.

Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©1999.

Description:

xvi, 361 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Legacies of social thought

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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 (acid-free paper)
9780847690404 (acid-free paper)
0847690415 (pbk.)
9780847690411 (pbk.)

Subject:

Minorities United States.
Sociology United States.
Minorités États-Unis.
Sociologie États-Unis.
Minorities.
Social conditions
Sociology.
Armut
Ethnische Gruppe
Soziologie
Sociale problemen.
Stadscultuur.
Sociologie.
United States Social conditions 1945-
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1945-
United States.
USA
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1945- ...

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.

Added entries:

Legacies of social thought.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217882
Call No.: HN57 .G3 1999
Status: Available