Race, class, and the postindustrial city [[electronic resource] ] : William Julius Wilson and the promise of sociology / / Frank Harold Wilson

• Autore: Wilson Frank Harold
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 301/.0973
• Soggetto topico: African American sociologists; Sociology, Urban - United States; African Americans - Social conditions; African Americans - Economic conditions; Urban poor - United States; Inner cities - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations; United States Social policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-248) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""RACE, CLASS, AND THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. THE SHADOW BEHIND THE ACT""; ""THE BEGINNINGS OF A BLACK SCHOLAR""; ""THE WASHINGTON STATE YEARS""; ""THE AMHERST YEARS""; ""THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: THE EARLY YEARS""; ""REFOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE URBAN BLACK UNDERCLASS AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WORK""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY""; ""2. INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND THE CHANGING CLASS STRUCTURE OF BLACKS""; ""BACKGROUND"" ; ""E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER'S LEGACY""""CONVERGENCES OF WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER""; ""RACE RELATIONS IN THE CITY A NEW FOCUS OF INTEREST""; ""STAGES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND RACE RELATIONS""; ""3. CHANGING PATTERNS OF RACE AND CLASS: The Emergence of the New Black Middle Class and the Urban Black Underclass""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON DEBATES CHARLES WILLIE AND KENNETH CLARK""; ""THEORY AND RESEARCH ON THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS"" ; ""THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""""RESEARCH ON THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""; ""MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF THE BLACK UNDERCLASS""; ""THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES ON THE URBAN BLACK UNDERCLASS""; ""RESEARCH ON WILSON'S MACROSOCIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES OF THE URBAN UNDERCLASS""; ""4. DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE CHANGING URBAN BLACK POPULATION""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""BLACK MIGRATION, POPULATION GROWTH, AND MOBILITY""; ""RACIAL SEGREGATION AND GHETTOIZATION""; ""HISTORIC SEGREGATION""; ""CONTEMPORARY SEGREGATION"" ; ""AN APPRAISAL OF WILSON'S PERSPECTIVES OF SEGREGATION AND GHETTOIZATION""""5. THE SOCIAL AND MORAL ORDER OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Social Isolation, Concentration Effects, and Disorganization""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""BRINGING CULTURE INTO A SOCIAL STRUCTURAL THEORY""; ""THE TRADITIONAL AND CURRENT GHETTO""; ""THE DECLINE OF FAMILY AMONG THE INNER-CITY BLACK POOR""; ""HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE GHETTO POOR""; ""OTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL AND SOCIAL ORDEROF THE GHETTO"" ; ""6. THE WORLD OF THE NEW URBAN POOR: Jobless Ghettos, Fading Inner-City Families, and the Changing Significance of Race""""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WORK AND JOBLESS GHETTOS""; ""THE CHANGING MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE AMONG EMPLOYERS""; ""THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM OF INDIVIDUALISM""; ""THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM IN CROSS-NATIONAL CONTEXTS""; ""COALITION POLITICS AND ""THE BRIDGE OVER THE RACIAL DIVIDE""""; ""OTHER REFLECTIONS ON ""WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS""""; ""7. WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""A KALEIDOSCOPE OF IMAGES"" ; ""THE SOCIOLOGIST AND PUBLIC POLICY""
• Titolo autorizzato: Race, class, and the postindustrial city
• ISBN: 0-7914-8546-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462151703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY Series, The New Inequalities