Race, class, and the postindustrial city : William Julius Wilson and the promise of sociology / Frank Harold Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Frank Harold.

Series:

SUNY Series, The New Inequalities

SUNY series, the new inequalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American sociologists--Biography.

African American sociologists.

Sociology, Urban--United States.

Sociology, Urban.

African Americans--Social conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

Urban poor--United States.

Urban poor.

Inner cities--United States.

Inner cities.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

United States--Social policy.

Wilson, William J., 1935-.

Wilson, William J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly explores the scholarship of William Julius Wilson, one of the nation's leading sociologists and public intellectuals, and the controversies surrounding his work. In addressing the connection between postindustrial cities and changing race relations, the author, who is not related to William Julius Wilson, shows how Wilson has synthesized competing theories of race relations, urban sociology, and public policy into a refocused liberal analysis of postindustrial America. Combining intellectual biography, the sociology of knowledge, and theoretical analyses of sociological debates relevant to African Americans, this book provides both appraisal and critique, ultimately assessing Wilson's contribution to the sociological canon.

Contents:

""RACE, CLASS, AND THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. THE SHADOW BEHIND THE ACT""; ""THE BEGINNINGS OF A BLACK SCHOLAR""; ""THE WASHINGTON STATE YEARS""; ""THE AMHERST YEARS""; ""THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: THE EARLY YEARS""; ""REFOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE URBAN BLACK UNDERCLASS AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WORK""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY""; ""2. INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND THE CHANGING CLASS STRUCTURE OF BLACKS""; ""BACKGROUND""

""E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER'S LEGACY""""CONVERGENCES OF WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER""; ""RACE RELATIONS IN THE CITY A NEW FOCUS OF INTEREST""; ""STAGES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND RACE RELATIONS""; ""3. CHANGING PATTERNS OF RACE AND CLASS: The Emergence of the New Black Middle Class and the Urban Black Underclass""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON DEBATES CHARLES WILLIE AND KENNETH CLARK""; ""THEORY AND RESEARCH ON THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""

""THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""""RESEARCH ON THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""; ""MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF THE BLACK UNDERCLASS""; ""THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES ON THE URBAN BLACK UNDERCLASS""; ""RESEARCH ON WILSON'S MACROSOCIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES OF THE URBAN UNDERCLASS""; ""4. DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE CHANGING URBAN BLACK POPULATION""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""BLACK MIGRATION, POPULATION GROWTH, AND MOBILITY""; ""RACIAL SEGREGATION AND GHETTOIZATION""; ""HISTORIC SEGREGATION""; ""CONTEMPORARY SEGREGATION""

""AN APPRAISAL OF WILSON'S PERSPECTIVES OF SEGREGATION AND GHETTOIZATION""""5. THE SOCIAL AND MORAL ORDER OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Social Isolation, Concentration Effects, and Disorganization""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""BRINGING CULTURE INTO A SOCIAL STRUCTURAL THEORY""; ""THE TRADITIONAL AND CURRENT GHETTO""; ""THE DECLINE OF FAMILY AMONG THE INNER-CITY BLACK POOR""; ""HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE GHETTO POOR""; ""OTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL AND SOCIAL ORDEROF THE GHETTO""

""6. THE WORLD OF THE NEW URBAN POOR: Jobless Ghettos, Fading Inner-City Families, and the Changing Significance of Race""""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WORK AND JOBLESS GHETTOS""; ""THE CHANGING MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE AMONG EMPLOYERS""; ""THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM OF INDIVIDUALISM""; ""THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM IN CROSS-NATIONAL CONTEXTS""; ""COALITION POLITICS AND ""THE BRIDGE OVER THE RACIAL DIVIDE""""; ""OTHER REFLECTIONS ON ""WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS""""; ""7. WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""A KALEIDOSCOPE OF IMAGES""

""THE SOCIOLOGIST AND PUBLIC POLICY""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-248) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780791485460

0791485463

OCLC:

923416207