Gans The Levittowners

Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54264-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Legacy Editions

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 institutions, social and political life, and the former city residents’ adaptation to suburban living.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gans, Herbert J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Molotch, Harvey

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables
Foreword, by Harvey Molotch
Preface to the Morningside Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Setting, Theory, and Method of the Study
Part 1: The Origin of a Community
1. The Planners of Levittown
2. The Levittowners—and Why They Came
3. The Beginnings of Group Life
4. The Founding of Churches
5. The New School System
6. The Emergence of Party Politics
7. The Origin of a Community
Part 2: The Quality of Suburban Life
8. Social Life: Suburban Homogeneity and Conformity
9. The Vitality of Community Culture
10. Family and Individual Adaptation
11. The Impact of the Community
Part 3: The Democracy of Politics
12. Political Communication
13. The Decision-making Process
14. Politics and Planning
15. Levittown and America
Appendix: The Methods of the Study
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert J. Gans is professor of sociology emeritus at Columbia University. His many books include Imagining America in 2033 (2008), Deciding What's News (1979), and The Urban Villagers (1962).