Sociology and Social Policy: Essays on Community, Economy, and Society (Hardcover)

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I: The City
1. Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements
2. The Sociology of Space: A Use-Centered View
3. Involuntary Segregation and the Ghetto: Disconnecting Process and Place
4. Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis
Part II: Poverty
5. Studying the Bottom of American Society
6. The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty
7. The Benefits of Poverty
Part III: Jobs and the Political Economy
8. Superfluous Workers: The Labor Market’s Invisible Discards
9. Work-Time Reduction: Possibilities and Problems
10. Basic Income: A Remedy for a Sick Labor Market?
11. Seeking a Political Solution to the Economy’s Problems
12. High School Economics Texts and the American Economy
Part IV: Race and Class
13. Race as Class
14. “Whitening” and the Changing American Racial Hierarchy
15. The Moynihan Report and Its Aftermaths: A Critical Analysis
Part V: Ethnicity
16. The Coming Darkness of Late-Generation European-American Ethnicity
17. The End of Late-Generation European Ethnicity in America?
Appendix: Working in Six Research Areas?a Multi-Field Sociological Career