Description: Further DetailsTitle: The LevittownersCondition: NewEAN: 9780231178877ISBN: 9780231178877Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/28/2017Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Herbert J. GansContributor: Harvey Molotch (Foreword by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban CommunityISBN-10: 0231178875Description: In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work chronicles the invention of a new community and its major institutions, the beginnings of social and political life, and the former city residents' adaptation to suburban living. Gans uses his research to reject the charge that suburbs are sterile and pathological. First published in 1967, The Levittowners is a classic of participant-observer ethnography that also paints a sensitive portrait of working-class and lower-middle-class life in America. This new edition features a foreword by Harvey Molotch that reflects on Gans's challenges to conventional wisdom.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Legacy EditionsTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Levittowners
Title: The Levittowners
EAN: 9780231178877
ISBN: 9780231178877
Release Date: 03/28/2017
Release Year: 2017
Contributor: Harvey Molotch (Foreword by)
Subtitle: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
ISBN-10: 0231178875
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Levittowners : Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 1.4 in
Subject: Sociology / General, United States / General
Publication Year: 2017
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Herbert J. Gans
Item Length: 8.4 in
Series: Legacy Editions Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
