03228oam 2200445I 450 991049614380332120200828181725.00-585-32608-8(CKB)111057870440122(OCoLC)64684494(EXLCZ)9911105787044012220180129d1991 uy 0engurun#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerica at century's end /edited by Alan WolfeBerkeley :University of California Press,[1991]1 online resource (xv, 579 pages) illustrations0-520-07477-7 0-520-07476-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-554) and index.Introduction : change from the bottom up / Alan Wolfe -- Backward toward the postmodern family : reflections on gender, kinship, and class in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey -- Coping with commitment : dilemmas and conflicts of family life / Kathleen Gerson -- Minor difficulties : changing children in the late twentieth century / Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling -- Ambivalent communities : how Americans understand their localities / Claude S. Fischer -- Mirrors and metaphors : the United States and its trade rivals / Fred Block -- Uncertain seas : cultural turmoil and the domestic economy / Katherine S. Newman -- Labor and management in uncertain times : renegotiating the social contract / Ruth Milkman.The blue-collar working class : continuity and change / David Halle and Frank Romo -- The enduring dilemma of race in America / Bart Landry -- Passages to America : perspectives on the new immigration / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- The hollow center : U.S. cities in the global era / Sharon Zukin -- National news culture and the rise of the informational citizen / Michael Schudson -- Schools under pressure / Caroline Hodges Persell -- Doctor no longer knows best : changing American attitudes toward medicine and health / Jonathan B. Imber -- Unlikely alliances : the changing contours of American religious faith / James Davison Hunter and John Steadman Rice -- Pluralism and disdain : American culture today / Gaye Tuchman.Complexities of conservatism : how conservatives understand the world / Rebecca Klatch -- The return of Rambo : war and culture in the post-Vietnam era / J. William Gibson -- Criminals' passions and the progressive's dilemma / Jack Katz -- Through the prism of time : temporal structures in postindustrial America / Carmen Sirianni and Andrea Walsh -- Contentless consensus : the political discourse of a segmented society / Richard Madsen -- Out of the frying pan, into ... what? / Alan Wolfe.Social changeSocial institutionsUnited StatesSocial problemsUnited StatesSocial conditions1980-Electronic books.Social change.Social institutionsSocial problems.306/.0973Wolfe Alan1942-BOOK9910496143803321America at century's end2862123UNINA