The Levittowners : ways of life and politics in a new suburban community
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The Levittowners : ways of life and politics in a new suburban community
(Legacy editions / edited by Howard S. Becker and Mitchell Duneier)
Columbia University Press, c2017
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"Originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York, and Random House, Inc., New York and simultraneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Reprinted by arrangement with Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc."--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 452-462) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Tables Foreword, by Harvey Molotch Preface to the Morningside Edition Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Setting, Theory, and Method of the Study Part 1: The Origin of a Community 1. The Planners of Levittown 2. The Levittowners-and Why They Came 3. The Beginnings of Group Life 4. The Founding of Churches 5. The New School System 6. The Emergence of Party Politics 7. The Origin of a Community Part 2: The Quality of Suburban Life 8. Social Life: Suburban Homogeneity and Conformity 9. The Vitality of Community Culture 10. Family and Individual Adaptation 11. The Impact of the Community Part 3: The Democracy of Politics 12. Political Communication 13. The Decision-making Process 14. Politics and Planning 15. Levittown and America Appendix: The Methods of the Study References Index
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