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
- Acknowledgments
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Introduction
- Chronology
- 1. On Clerical Liberalism (Du libéralisme clérical, 1848)
- 2. Mr. de Sacy and the Liberal Tradition (M. de Sacy et l’école libérale, 1858)
- 3. The Philosophy of Contemporary History (Philosophie de l’histoire contemporaine, 1859)
- 4. The Role of the Family and the State in Education (La part de la famille et de l’État dans l’Éducation, 1869)
- 5. Constitutional Monarchy in France (La Monarchie constitutionnelle en France, 1869)
- 6. The War between France and Germany (La Guerre entre la France et l’Allemagne, 1870)
- 7. Two Letters to Mr. Strauss (Lettre & Nouvelle lettre à M. Strauss, 1870-1871)
- 8. Intellectual and Moral Reform of France (La Réforme intellectuelle et morale de la France, 1871)
- 9. What Is a Nation? (Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?, 1882)
- 10. Islam and Science (L’Islamisme et la science, 1883)
- 11. Original Unity and Gradual Separation of Judaism and Christianity (Identité originelle et séparation graduelle du judaïsme et du christianisme, 1883)
- Notes
- Index
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