Urban Villagers, Rev & Exp Ed

Hebert Gans’ study of Italian Americans in Boston’s West In is one of the classics of contemporary sociology.

Providing a first-hand account of life in an inner city of contemporary sociology, Urban Villagers is a systematic and sensitive analysis of working-class culture and of the politicians, planners, and other outside professionals who affected it.

This new edition is unique in that while the original text is intact, Gans has added extensive postscripts to the final five chapters and the appendix. Additionally, he updates the study’s findings on American society, adding new material on poverty and inequality.

Hebert J. Gans is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. His other books are The Levittowners, People and Plans, More Equality, Popular Culture and High Culture, and Deciding What’s News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time.

PREFACE TO THE UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDITION

ix

(4)

PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION

xiii

PART ONE Introduction

3

(42)

1 The West End: An Urban Village

3

(14)

2 The Italians of the West End: Place, Class, Culture, and Social Structure

17

(28)

PART TWO The Peer Group Society

45

(196)

3 The Family

45

(29)

4 The Peer Group and the Individual

74

(30)

5 The Community

104

(16)

6 The Outside World: Work, Education, and Medical Care

120

(22)

7 The Caretakers: Missionaries from the Outside World

142

(21)

8 The Politicians: Ambassadors to the Outside World

163

(18)

9 Consumer Goods and the Mass Media: Selective Acceptance of the Outside World

181

(16)

10 The Peer Group Society in Process

197

(44)

Postscript to Chapter 10

227

(14)

PART THREE The West Enders and American Society

241

(82)

11 The Subcultures of the Working Class, Lower Class, and Middle Class

241

(54)

Postscript to Chapter 11

275

(20)

12 An Evaluation of the Class Subcultures and Implications for Planning and Caretaking

295

(28)

Postscript to Chapter 12

311

(12)

PART FOUR Epilogue

323

(73)

13 Redevelopment of the West End

323

(24)

14 An Evaluation of the Redevelopment Plan and Process

347

(31)

Postscript to Chapters 13 and 14

378

(18)

APPENDIX On the Methods Used in This Study

396

(22)

Postscript to Appendix

411

(7)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

418

(15)

Supplement to Bibliography

426

(7)

NAME INDEX

433

(4)

SUBJECT INDEX

437

Photographs of the West End before and after the federal renewal program may be found following page 176.

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