When Ideas Mattered
Subtitle: a Nathan Glazer Reader
By: Leslie Lenkowsky
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781351295369
Subjects: Social sciences; History; Sociologists; Intellectuals; Sociologues; Intellectuels; Histoire
Description: "Sociologist Nathan Glazer's remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious intellect with a perpetual sense of curiosity, he defies easy labelling. When Ideas Mattered is a critical volume, but it also contains autobiographical essays Glazer has written over the years to explain the evolution of his own thought. The book is a sensitive and nuanced examination of a towering intellectual figure on the American scene. It is organized into sections corresponding to Glazer's wide ranging interests: ethnicity, race, social policy and urbanism, and architecture. He has written on the myth of the American melting pot, the nature of American communism, the perils and importance of affirmative action, and the limits of social policy. Because Glazer's work has influenced succeeding generations of thinkers and scholars in a number of fields, the editors have included appraisals and assessments by several of these writers written especially for this volume."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Introduction --; title: chapter An Unreliable Man --; title: part, II The Melting Pot and After --; title: chapter 1 America's Ethnic Pattern: "Melting Pot" or "Nation of Nations"? (1953) --; title: chapter 2 American Jewry or American Judaism? (1991) --; title: chapter 3 American Epic: Then and Now (1998) --; title: chapter 4 Culture and Achievement (2000) --; title: chapter 5 Assimilation Today: Is One Identity Enough? (2004) --; title: part, III On Race --; title: chapter 6 America's Race Paradox: The Gap between Social Progress & Political Despair (1968) --; title: chapter 7 Academic Freedom in the 1990s (1996) --; title: chapter 8 Impediments to Integration (1999) --; title: chapter 9 In Defense of Preference (1998) --; title: part, IV Social Policy --; title: chapter 10 The Limits of Social Policy (1971) --; title: chapter 11 Reform Work, Not Welfare (1975) --; title: part, V Architecture and Urbanism --; title: chapter 12 On Subway Graffiti in New York (1979) --; title: chapter 13 Paris--The View from New York (1984) --; title: chapter 14 The Prince, the People, and the Architects (1990) --; title: part, VI Glazer on Glazer --; title: chapter 15 My Life in Sociology (2012) --; title: chapter 16 Commentary: The Early Years (2005) --; title: chapter 17 On Being Deradicalized (1970) --; title: chapter 18 Neoconservative from the Start (2005) --; title: part, VII Glazer on Sociology --; title: chapter 19 Tocqueville and Riesman (2000) --; title: part, VIII Appraisals --; title: chapter 20 America's Leading Neoconservative Social Democrat  -- \n Dionne\n E.J.\n Jr.\n; title: chapter 21 A Beautiful Mind  -- Mark Lilla; title: chapter 22 "A Young Man at the periphery of the Profession"  -- Peter Skerry; title: chapter 23 A Sociologist for All Seasons *  -- Jackson Toby; title: chapter 24 Connecting the World of Thought -- Reed Ueda.