Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City: William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology,9780791460153

Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City: William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology

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ISBN13: 9780791460153
ISBN10: 0791460150
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-05-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

"Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly 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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xix
The Shadow Behind the Act
1(26)
The Beginnings of a Black Scholar
1(4)
The Washington State Years
5(2)
The Amherst Years
7(4)
The Sociology Department at the University of Chicago
11(4)
William Julius Wilson at the University of Chicago: The Early Years
15(7)
Refocusing Attention on the Urban Black Underclass and the Disappearance of Work
22(3)
William Julius Wilson at Harvard University
25(2)
Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Changing Class Structure of Blacks
27(18)
Background
27(2)
E. Franklin Frazier's Legacy
29(2)
Convergences of William Julius Wilson and E. Franklin Frazier
31(3)
Race Relations in the City---A New Focus of Interest
34(6)
Stages of Industrialization and Race Relations
40(5)
Changing Patterns of Race and Class: The Emergence of the New Black Middle Class and the Urban Black Underclass
45(32)
Background
45(2)
Modern Industrial Race Relations: The Emergence of the New Black Middle Class
47(3)
William Julius Wilson Debates Charles Willie and Kenneth Clark
50(4)
Theory and Research on the New Black Middle Class
54(1)
Theoretical Discussions of the New Black Middle Class
55(4)
Research on the Black Middle Class
59(5)
Modern Industrial Race Relations: The Emergence and Growth of the Black Underclass
64(1)
Theoretical Controversies on the Urban Black Underclass
65(7)
Research on Wilson's Macrosociological Hypotheses of the Urban Underclass
72(5)
Demographic and Ecological Analyses of the Changing Urban Black Population
77(20)
Background
77(2)
Black Migration, Population Growth, and Mobility
79(7)
Racial Segregation and Ghettoization
86(1)
Historic Segregation
86(1)
Contemporary Segregation
87(3)
An Appraisal of Wilson's Perspectives of Segregation and Ghettoization
90(7)
The Social and Moral Order of the Black Community: Social Isolation, Concentration Effects, and Disorganization
97(28)
Background
97(5)
Bringing Culture into a Social Structural Theory
102(2)
The Traditional and Current Ghetto
104(5)
The Decline of Family among the Inner-City Black Poor
109(5)
Human and Social Capital and the Ghetto Poor
114(5)
Other Reflections on the Moral and Social Order of the Ghetto
119(6)
The World of the New Urban Poor: Jobless Ghettos, Fading Inner-City Families, and the Changing Significance of Race
125(22)
Introduction
125(1)
The Disappearance of Work and Jobless Ghettos
126(4)
The Changing Meaning and Significance of Race Among Employers
130(5)
The American Belief System of Individualism
135(2)
The American Belief System in Cross-National Contexts
137(3)
Coalition Politics and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide
140(3)
Other Reflections on When Work Disappears
143(4)
William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology
147(24)
Background
147(6)
A Kaleidoscope of Images
153(4)
The Sociologist and Public Policy
157(3)
Refocusing Normative Social Theory on Social Problems
160(5)
Refocusing the Liberal Perspective on Social Problems
165(6)
The Significance of Sociological Prisms and Controversies
171(16)
Background
171(2)
The Formal Approach
173(4)
The Symbolic Language of Action
177(5)
The Holistic Perspective: Continuing Possibilities and Challenges
182(5)
The Continuing Significance of Race and Racial Prisms in the Sociology of William Julius Wilson
187(26)
Background
187(1)
The Myrdal Problem and the Continuing American Dilemma
188(9)
Intergroup Perspectives of Race Relations
197(9)
Microsociological and Personal Perspectives
206(7)
Epilogue
213(12)
References 225(24)
Author and Name Index 249(4)
Subject Index 253

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