[PDF] The Levittowners Ways Of Life And Politics In A New Suburban Community eBook

Author : Herbert J. Gans
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 023154264X

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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 political life, and the former city residents' adaptation to suburban living. Gans uses his research to reject the charge that suburbs are sterile and pathological. First published in 1967, The Levittowners is a classic of participant-observer ethnography that also paints a sensitive portrait of working-class and lower-middle-class life in America. This new edition features a foreword by Harvey Molotch that reflects on Gans's challenges to conventional wisdom.

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412954304

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The fast-food business, most notably McDonalds, revolutionised not only the restaurant business but also American society and ultimately, the world. Using the model of McDonalds, the author draws on the theories of Weber to produce a social critique.

Author : Becky M. Nicolaides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
ISBN : 0197578306

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"The New Suburbia explores how the suburbs transitioned from bastions of segregation into spaces of multiracial living. They are the second generation of suburbs after 1945, moving from starkly segregated whiteness into a more varied, uneven social landscape. The suburbs came to hold a broad cross-section of people - rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, and the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. In the new suburbia, white advantage persisted, but it existed alongside rising inequality, ethnic and racial diversity, and new family configurations. Through it all, the common denominators of suburbia remained - low-slung landscapes of single-family homes and yards and families seeking the good life. On this familiar landscape, the American dream endured even as the dreamers changed"--

Author : Evan McKenzie
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300066388

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A study of political and social issues posed by the rise of CIDs (common interest housing developments) in the US. The work explores the consequences of CIDs on government and argues that private, residential government has serious implications for civil liberties.