The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory

ISBN-13: 9780202307732 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 282 str.

Anselm L. Strauss; Joseph Gusfield

Opis

This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement within American society from one status to another. The most important images of mobility involve self-improvement by changing location (going to the frontier, coming to the big city), and by changing social class (second-generation immigrants). Almost all sociological and historical analysis has been limited to these themes. Strauss extends the concept to a wide range of ideologies, institutional contexts, and social movements; his analysis is based on a formal theory of status passage and develops a partial theory of mobility.

Spis treści

Introduction; One: Limitations of Research and Theory; Two: Ideology; One: Images of the Frontier; Two: Rural Images; Three: Urban Images; Four: The Imagery of Immigration and Ethnicity; Five: Images of Industrialization, I; Six: Images of Industrialization, II; Seven: Images of Civilization; Three: A Theory of Mobility; Eight: Direction and Distance; Nine: Temporal Aspects of Mobility; Ten: The Articulation of Concerns; Eleven: The Shape of Mobility; Epilogue: The Variable Society, Chinese Boxes, and the Concerned Citizen

O autorze

Anselm L. Strauss