{"product_id":"sociology-and-social-policy-9780231183048","title":"Sociology and Social Policy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of recent essays by the influential sociologist Herbert J. Gans brings together the many themes of Gans’s wide-ranging career—the city, poverty, ethnicity, employment and political economy, and the relationship between race and class—to make the case for a policy-oriented vision for sociology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow good to have this exceptionally stimulating collection of essays that deploy decades of learning to probe fundamental challenges of political economy, race, and bases of identity. Written by a master sociologist in his characteristically lucid, accessible prose, these deep and compelling ruminations offer challenges to thought and action on every page. -- Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University These essays remind us of the balance and the wonderful clarity and compassion that inform all of Gans's work on urban and other social problems. And they remain acutely insightful and compelling at this perilous moment in American history. -- Frances Fox Piven, the Graduate Center, City University of New York Herbert J. Gans is among the most original and prolific students of American urban society. For over fifty years, he has taken up some of the nation's most vexing problems-racism, poverty, immigration-writing with clarity, urgency, and keen intelligence. In my own work, I find myself going back to Gans again and again, learning something new each time. Uncompromising yet pragmatic, clear-eyed yet hopeful, this brilliant new collection of essays is essential reading. -- Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City A valuable reader for undergraduate classes in urban, economic, and race sociology, as well as a book valuable to policy analysts and makers. A great contribution to the field. -- Deirdre Oakley, Georgia State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements\u003cbr\u003e2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View\u003cbr\u003e3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place\u003cbr\u003e4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Poverty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Studying the Bottom of American Society\u003cbr\u003e6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty\u003cbr\u003e7. The Benefits of Poverty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Jobs and the Political Economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market’s Invisible Discards\u003cbr\u003e9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems\u003cbr\u003e10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?\u003cbr\u003e11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy’s Problems\u003cbr\u003e12. High School Economics Texts and the American Economy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Race and Class\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Race as Class\u003cbr\u003e14. “Whitening” and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy\u003cbr\u003e15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical Analysis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Ethnicity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity\u003cbr\u003e17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America?\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Working in Six Research Areas—a Multi-Field Sociological Career","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400319508823,"sku":"9780231183048","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231183048.jpg?v=1730470378","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sociology-and-social-policy-9780231183048","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}