America at century's end / edited by Alan Wolfe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wolfe, Alan, 1942- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Social institutions--United States.

Social institutions.

Social problems.

United States--Social conditions--1980-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 579 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]

Contents:

Introduction : change from the bottom up / Alan Wolfe

Backward toward the postmodern family : reflections on gender, kinship, and class in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey

Coping with commitment : dilemmas and conflicts of family life / Kathleen Gerson

Minor difficulties : changing children in the late twentieth century / Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling

Ambivalent communities : how Americans understand their localities / Claude S. Fischer

Mirrors and metaphors : the United States and its trade rivals / Fred Block

Uncertain seas : cultural turmoil and the domestic economy / Katherine S. Newman

Labor and management in uncertain times : renegotiating the social contract / Ruth Milkman.

The blue-collar working class : continuity and change / David Halle and Frank Romo

The enduring dilemma of race in America / Bart Landry

Passages to America : perspectives on the new immigration / Rubén G. Rumbaut

The hollow center : U.S. cities in the global era / Sharon Zukin

National news culture and the rise of the informational citizen / Michael Schudson

Schools under pressure / Caroline Hodges Persell

Doctor no longer knows best : changing American attitudes toward medicine and health / Jonathan B. Imber

Unlikely alliances : the changing contours of American religious faith / James Davison Hunter and John Steadman Rice

Pluralism and disdain : American culture today / Gaye Tuchman.

Complexities of conservatism : how conservatives understand the world / Rebecca Klatch

The return of Rambo : war and culture in the post-Vietnam era / J. William Gibson

Criminals' passions and the progressive's dilemma / Jack Katz

Through the prism of time : temporal structures in postindustrial America / Carmen Sirianni and Andrea Walsh

Contentless consensus : the political discourse of a segmented society / Richard Madsen

Out of the frying pan, into ... what? / Alan Wolfe.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-554) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-32608-8

OCLC:

64684494