| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Social Scientist as a Human Being; 1 On Getting People to Tell You More Than They Want To; 2 Fact and Fiction: Sociology and the Novel; Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life; 3 What is an American City?; 4 American Community in Transition; 5 Building the American Way: Public Subsidy, Private Space; 6 Towards an "Active Socioplastics"; People, Plans, and Policies; 7 The Right Hand and the Left Hand: Contradictory Social Policies in the Lives of the Working Poor |
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8 Understanding the Emergence and Persistence of Concentrated Urban Poverty9 Ignoring Justice in Disaster Planning: An Agenda for Research on 9/11, Katrina, and Social Policy; The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America; 10 The Battle over Assimilation; 11 Assimilation's Bumpy Road; Democracy and the News; 12 The Concept of Politics in Contemporary United States Journalism; 13 Convergence: News Production in a Digital Age; More Equality; 14 Movements and Reform in Twentieth-Century America; Contributor Biographies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Serhan, Randa
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| ISBN |
9781315635248 |
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1315635240 |
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