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Titolo: |
America at century's end / / edited by Alan Wolfe
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Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1991] |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xv, 579 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 306/.0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Social change |
Social institutions - United States | |
Social problems | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions 1980- |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | WolfeAlan <1942-> |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-554) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. | |
Titolo autorizzato: | America at century's end ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-585-32608-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910496143803321 |
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