Sociology and social policy : essays on community, economy, and society / Herbert J. Gans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gans, Herbert J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social policy.

Applied sociology.

Physical Description:

xiii, 259 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

Summary:

This collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans' wide-ranging career to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology. Sociology and social policy presents a range of studies from across Gans' areas of interest - the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class - that together make a powerful call to action.

Contents:

Part one: the city

Some problems of and futures for urban sociology: toward a sociology of settlements

The sociology of space: a use-centered view

Involuntary segregation and the Ghetto: disconnecting process and place

Concentrated poverty: a critical analysis

Part two: poverty

Studying the bottom of American society

The challenge of multigenerational poverty

The benefits of poverty

Part three: jobs and the political economy

Superfluous workers: the labor market's invisible discards

Work-time reduction: possibilities and problems

Basic income: a remedy for a sick labor market?

Seeking a political solution to the economy's problems

High school economics texts and the American economy

Part four: race and class

Race as class

"Whitening" and the changing American racial hierarchy

The Moynihan report and its aftermaths: a critical analysis

Part five: ethnicity

The coming darkness of late-generation European-American ethnicity

The end of late-generation European ethnicity in America?

Appendix: working in six research areas - a multi-field sociological career.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0231183054

9780231183055

0231183046

9780231183048

OCLC:

987630863