Wuthnow Small-Town America

Finding Community, Shaping the Future
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4649-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 520 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wuthnow, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vii

List of Profiles ix

Preface xi

1- Introduction 1

2- You Have to Deal with Everybody: The Inhabitants of Small Towns 17

3- Going to Be Buried Right Here: How Residents View Their Towns 51

4- Community Spirit: Small-Town Identities That Bind 101

5- The Frog Pond: Making Sense of Work and Money 139

6- Leadership: Earning Respect, Improving the Community 177

7- Habits of Faith: The Social Role of Small-Town Congregations 217

8- Contentious Issues: The Moral Sentiments of Community Life 263

9- Washington Is Broken: Politics and the New Populism 291

10- Keep Your Doors Open: Shaping the Future 319

11- Concluding Reflections: Community in Small Towns 341

Afterword 361

Methodology 365

Notes 391

Selected Bibliography 449

Index 469

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His books include Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State, Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland and Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s (all Princeton).