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  • Popular Culture and High Culture

    An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged to some extent over the twenty-five years since he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Democracy and the News

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    American democracy was founded on the belief that ultimate power rests in an informed citizenry. But that belief appears naive in an era when private corporations manipulate public policy and the individual citizen is dwarfed by agencies, special interest groups, and other organizations that have a firm grasp on real political and economic power. In Democracy and the News, one of America's most ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Sociology and Social Policy

    Essays on Community, Economy, and Society

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    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. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sociology and Social Policy

    Essays on Community, Economy, and Society

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    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. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Levittowners

    Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    Series series Legacy Editions
    In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work chronicles the invention of a new community and its major institutions, the beginnings of social and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Handbook of Public Sociology

    by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy, Stephen Cornell, Michael DeCesare, Sean Elias, Frank Furedi, Norval D. Glenn, John Hagan, Lina Hu, Robert Kleidman, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard, Damon Mayrl, Bill McCarthy, Raymond A. Morrow, Jennifer Mueller, Samuel P. Oliner, Pamela E. Oliver, Caroline Hodges Persell, Laurel Westbrook, Lee McPhail, Herbert J. Gans, Ruth Horowitz, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Lawrence T. Nichols, Saskia Sassen, Edward A. Tiryakian ...
    Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

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    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Colorblind

    The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity

    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Read more

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  • When Work Disappears

    The World of the New Urban Poor

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?

    by Graham Smith ...
    Series series Democratic Futures
    Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term.In this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the drivers of short-termism, he considers ways of reshaping legislatures and constitutions and proposes ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

    The Promise of Civic Renewal in America

    by Peter Levine ...
    Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them. Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Sociology

    by John E. Farley, Michael W. Flota ...
    This best-selling textbook returns for a seventh edition with material on the most fundamental and fascinating issues in sociology today. The authors continue their tradition of focusing on the big picture, with an emphasis on race, class, and gender in every chapter. The text continues to frame sociological debates around the major theoretical perspectives of sociology and focus on capturing ... Read more

    $120.99 USD