The American City Civic Culture in

In this book Daniel Monti reconciles liberal and conservative viewpoints to claim that Americans are indeed a community of believers and that a viable and vital civic culture exists in the United States despite notions of difference and apathy.

Daniel J. Monti, Jr. is Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He has written extensively on American ethnic relations, educational reform, civil unrest, youth gangs, and urban affairs. His other titles include Wannabe: Gangs in Suburbs and Schools (Blackwell, 1995) and Race, Redevelopment and the New Company Town (1990).

Preface and Acknowledgments

vi

What Makes the Good Society?

1

(23)

We Are a Bourgeois People Who Made an Urban World

24

(32)

On Small Towns and Their ``Citified'' Ways

56

(36)

The Civic Culture of American Cities

92

(32)

Belonging and Sharing

124

(41)

Piety and Tolerance

165

(36)

Private Lives and Public Worlds

201

(39)

Doing Well by Doing Good

240

(39)

Some Sort of Americans

279

(40)

Articles of Faith: Personal Adornment as a Communal Accomplishment

319

(29)

Private Entitlements as a Public Good

348

(30)

Some Concluding Observations About the ``Good Old Days''

378

(3)

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The American City Civic Culture in Sociohistorical Perspective

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