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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements -- 2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View -- 3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place -- 4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis -- 5. Studying the Bottom of American Society -- 6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty -- 7. The Benefits of Poverty -- 8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market's Invisible Discards -- 9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems -- 10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market? -- 11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy's Problems -- 12. High School Economics Texts and the American Economy -- 13. Race as Class -- 14. "Whitening" and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy -- 15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical Analysis -- 16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity -- 17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America? -- Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas-A Multi-Field Sociological Career

In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third 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 major institutions, the beginnings of social and political life, and the former city residents' adaptation to suburban living. Gans uses his research to reject the charge that suburbs are sterile and pathological. First published in 1967, The Levittowners is a classic of participant-observer ethnography that also paints a sensitive portrait of working-class and lower-middle-class life in America. This new edition features a foreword by Harvey Molotch that reflects on Gans's challenges to conventional wisdom.

AbstractThis paper argues that diversity is more than just a mixing of people perceived as different, and consists of activities and relationships much like other social phenomena. Consequently, there is much to be studied, beginning with the diversification process by which diversity is implemented. Since diversification is often initiated as a deliberate policy, researchers can be helpful to policy makers, especially with empirical research that addresses their policy related questions.