Urban Villagers, Rev & Exp Ed,9780029112403

Urban Villagers, Rev & Exp Ed

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780029112403
ISBN10: 0029112400
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1982-06-01
Publisher(s): Free Press
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Summary

A sociological study of the native-born Americans of Italian parentage who lived in Boston's West End during the fifties

Author Biography

Hebert J. Gans is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. His other books are The Levittowners, People and Plans, More Equality, Popular Culture and High Culture, and Deciding What’s News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION ix(4)
PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION xiii
PART ONE Introduction 3(42)
1 The West End: An Urban Village
3(14)
2 The Italians of the West End: Place, Class, Culture, and Social Structure
17(28)
PART TWO The Peer Group Society 45(196)
3 The Family
45(29)
4 The Peer Group and the Individual
74(30)
5 The Community
104(16)
6 The Outside World: Work, Education, and Medical Care
120(22)
7 The Caretakers: Missionaries from the Outside World
142(21)
8 The Politicians: Ambassadors to the Outside World
163(18)
9 Consumer Goods and the Mass Media: Selective Acceptance of the Outside World
181(16)
10 The Peer Group Society in Process
197(44)
Postscript to Chapter 10
227(14)
PART THREE The West Enders and American Society 241(82)
11 The Subcultures of the Working Class, Lower Class, and Middle Class
241(54)
Postscript to Chapter 11
275(20)
12 An Evaluation of the Class Subcultures and Implications for Planning and Caretaking
295(28)
Postscript to Chapter 12
311(12)
PART FOUR Epilogue 323(73)
13 Redevelopment of the West End
323(24)
14 An Evaluation of the Redevelopment Plan and Process
347(31)
Postscript to Chapters 13 and 14
378(18)
APPENDIX On the Methods Used in This Study 396(22)
Postscript to Appendix 411(7)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 418(15)
Supplement to Bibliography 426(7)
NAME INDEX 433(4)
SUBJECT INDEX 437
Photographs of the West End before and after the federal renewal program may be found following page 176.

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