Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City
Subtitle: William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology (The New Inequalities)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780791460160
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Social classes; Urban communities; Sociology, Urban; Minority Studies - General; Biography; Wilson, William J.,; Biography & Autobiography; Social Scientists & Psychologists; Sociology - Urban; Sociology; USA; General; African Americans; United States; 1935-; African American sociologists; Social conditions
Description: "Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City 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."--BOOK JACKET.