Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City
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Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City

William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
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Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City

William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology

About this book

An overview and critical appraisal of the work of influential sociologist and public intellectual William Julius Wilson.

Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly explores the scholarship of William Julius Wilson, one of the nation's leading sociologists and public intellectuals, and the controversies surrounding his work. In addressing the connection between postindustrial cities and changing race relations, the author, who is not related to William Julius Wilson, shows how Wilson has synthesized competing theories of race relations, urban sociology, and public policy into a refocused liberal analysis of postindustrial America. Combining intellectual biography, the sociology of knowledge, and theoretical analyses of sociological debates relevant to African Americans, this book provides both appraisal and critique, ultimately assessing Wilson's contribution to the sociological canon.

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Table of contents

  1. RACE, CLASS, AND THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY
  2. CONTENTS
  3. PREFACE
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. 1. THE SHADOW BEHIND THE ACT
  6. 2. INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND THE CHANGING CLASS STRUCTURE OF BLACKS
  7. 3. CHANGING PATTERNS OF RACE AND CLASS: The Emergence of the New Black Middle Class and the Urban Black Underclass
  8. 4. DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE CHANGING URBAN BLACK POPULATION
  9. 5. THE SOCIAL AND MORAL ORDER OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Social Isolation, Concentration Effects, and Disorganization
  10. 6. THE WORLD OF THE NEW URBAN POOR: Jobless Ghettos, Fading Inner-City Families, and the Changing Significance of Race
  11. 7. WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY
  12. 8. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRISMS AND CONTROVERSIES
  13. 9. THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCEOF RACE AND RACIAL PRISMS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON
  14. 10. EPILOGUE
  15. REFERENCES
  16. AUTHOR AND NAME INDEX
  17. SUBJECT INDEX