When Ideas Mattered - A Nathan Glazer Reader

Informationen zum Autor Leslie Lenkowsky Klappentext The book is a sensitive and nuanced examination of a towering intellectual figure on the American scene. It is organized into sections corresponding to Glazer's wide ranging interests: ethnicity, race, social policy and urbanism, and architecture. Zusammenfassung The book is a sensitive and nuanced examination of a towering intellectual figure on the American scene. It is organized into sections corresponding to Glazer's wide ranging interests: ethnicity, race, social policy and urbanism, and architecture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction An Unreliable Man Joseph Dorman Part II: The Melting Pot and After 1 America's Ethnic Pattern: "Melting Pot" or "Nation of Nations" (1953) 2 American Jewry or American Judaism? (1991) 3 American Epic: Then and Now (1998) 4 Culture and Achievement (2000) 5 Assimilation Today: Is One Identity Enough? (2004) Part III: On Race 6 America's Race Paradox: The Gap between Social Progress & Political Despair (1968) 7 Academic Freedom in the 1990s (1996) 8 Impediments to Integration (1999) 9 In Defence of Preference (1998) Part IV: Social Policy 10 The Limits of Social Policy (1971) 11 Reform Work, Not Welfare (1975) Part V: Architecture and Urbanism 12 On Subway Graffiti in New York (1979) 13 Paris—The View from New York (1984) 14 The Prince, the People, and the Architects (1990) Part VI: Glazer on Glazer 15 My Life in Sociology (2012) 16 Commentary: The Early Years (2005) 17 On Being Deradicalized (1970) 18 Neoconservative from the Start (2005) Part VII: Glazer on Sociology 19 Tocqueville and Riesman (2000) Part VIII: Appraisals 20 America's Leading Neoconservative Social Democrat E. J. Dionne, Jr. 21 A Beautiful Mind Mark Lilla 22 "A Young Man at the Periphery of the Profession" Peter Skerry 23 A Sociologist for All Seasons Jackson Toby 24 Connecting the World of Thought Reed Ueda Contributors Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Joseph (EDT)/ Lenkowsky Dorman, Leslie Lenkowsky, Lenkowsky Leslie
• Assisted by: Joseph Dorman (Editor), Leslie Lenkowsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781412864169
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-6416-9
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political structure & processes, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Central / national / federal government policies, Political structure and processes, Central government policies