Herbert J. Gans

Autore di Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste

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Herbert Gans is a German-born American sociologist who was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Active in urban planning and housing at the beginning of his career, he taught planning and sociology at Columbia Teachers College and subsequently at Columbia mostra altro University. He is best known for his work on American communities, including The Urban Villagers (1962), a study of Boston's West End and The Levittowners (1967). He has focused much of his research on the American middle class. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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Opere di Herbert J. Gans

Popolari Recenti

The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans (1962) 140 copie

Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time (1979) — Autore — 96 copie

The Levittowners (1750) 83 copie

The War Against The Poor: The Underclass And Antipoverty Policy (1995) 78 copie

Democracy and the News (2003) 47 copie

People and plans; essays on urban problems and solutions (1968) 33 copie

More equality (1972) 25 copie

Middle American Individualism: The Future of Liberal Democracy (1988) 18 copie

People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems (1991) 14 copie

Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush (2008) 8 copie

On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman (1979) — A cura di — 7 copie

Making Sense of America (1999) 4 copie

Sociology in America (American Sociological Association Presidential Series) (1990) 2 copie

The uses of television and their educational implications: Preliminary findings from a survey of adult and adolescent… 1 copia

Sociology and Social Policy: Essays on Community, Economy, and Society (2017) 1 copia

People, Plans, and Politics: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems 1 copia

Populer Kultur ve Yuksek Kultur (2005) 1 copia

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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 514 copie

Urban renewal; the record and the controversy (1966) — Collaboratore — 22 copie

Conflict Issues in Sociology: Introductory Readings (1990) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Antropologia (5) Arte (4) Boston (10) città (4) Classe (4) Cultura (8) cultura americana (5) Cultura di massa (12) Cultural Studies (10) da leggere (13) Economia (4) Geography/Urban Studies (3) Giornalismo (14) Italian Americans (8) letto (3) Media (14) MIT OCW (6) non letto (4) Notizia (5) Novecento (4) Piano (3) Politica (9) posseduto (4) Povertà (14) Residenza (4) Saggistica (23) School of Architecture and Planning (school) (6) Scienza politica (8) Sociologia (80) Sociologia urbana (6) Stati Uniti d'America (6) Storia (9) suburbs (4) Teoria (7) urban (11) urban studies (5) urban-studies-and-planning (subject) (6) urbanism (5) Urbanistica (9) West End (5)

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Gans, Herbert J.
Data di nascita: 1927
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Germany (birth)
Luogo di residenza: Cologne, Germany
New York, New York, USA
Istruzione: University of Pennsylvania
Attività lavorative: sociologist
university professor
Organizzazioni: Columbia University

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2/26/22

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laplantelibrary | 7 altre recensioni | Feb 26, 2022 |

I won't be able to finish. I knew he was blowing it out of his ass when he said that popular culture should be taxed to support high culture. Culture exists because of the financial support of its patrons, not at the whim of a central cultural authority. If it doesn't pay, it doesn't play. Shakespeare knew that. So did Johnson. Joyce didn't know and we got that grad student doorstop 'Ulysses'. Really, just an aggravating book and typical of the sanctimonious editorializing that passes for academic discussion where nicely parsed models are fobbed off as insight. Read Warshow's 'The Immediate Experience' instead, top it off with Chesterton's essay 'In Praise of Penny Dreadfuls' and you've left Gans far behind.… (altro)

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SomeGuyInVirginia | 7 altre recensioni | May 8, 2012 |

Gans does a nice job of debunking certain elitist assumptions about the effects of popular culture that too often go unchallenged.

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deanmachine | 7 altre recensioni | Feb 26, 2010 |

I found his analysis of different taste cultures to be helpful, but pretty much flat-out disagree with a lot of what he implies. Would have been much better to do a full update of this book, rather than a postscript that allows the writer to dodge inconsistencies between old text and current reality.

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alissamarie | 7 altre recensioni | Oct 25, 2009 |

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