American Democracy and the Pursuit of Equality

ISBN-13: 9781594513541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 278 str.

Merlin Chowkwanyun; Randa Serhan

Opis

This collection assembles some of the country s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations of metropolitan transformation, recent education policy, the (in)justice of disaster relief, the politics of aesthetics and design, immigration, the mass media, social movements, and the practice of social science itself, among others. Whatever their subjects, the writers investigate the promise and constraints of democratic practice in a time of disturbing growth in inequality and political disempowerment. Although they at times differ from one another, more often, they challenge popular received wisdom on a number of these topics. Cumulatively, the volume amounts to a critical sociological excavation of the United States from its leading social critics that will prove useful to specialists and general readers alike."

Spis treści

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 8 understanding the emergence and Persistence of concentrated urban Poverty 9 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 Equality14 movements and reform in twentieth-century America

O autorze

Merlin Chowkwanyun is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Randa Serhan is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. She graduated with high distinction from the American University of Beirut.