Description: Levittowners : Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community, Paperback by Gans, Herbert J.; Molotch, Harvey (FRW), ISBN 0231178875, ISBN-13 9780231178877, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US 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 sociologys most famous community studies, Herbert J. Ganss 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 Ganss challenges to conventional wisdom.
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Book Title: Levittowners : Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Commun
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
