登入選單
返回Google圖書搜尋
The Levittowners
Herbert J. Gans
其他書名
Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
出版Columbia University Press, 2017-03-28
主題Social Science / Sociology / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN023154264X9780231542647
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rBgwDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBookSAMPLE
註釋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.