Herbert J. Gans

Auteur van Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste

18+ Werken 720 Leden 9 Besprekingen

Over de Auteur

Herbert Gans is a German-born American sociologist who was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Active in urban planning and housing at the beginning of his career, he taught planning and sociology at Columbia Teachers College and subsequently at Columbia toon meer University. He is best known for his work on American communities, including The Urban Villagers (1962), a study of Boston's West End and The Levittowners (1967). He has focused much of his research on the American middle class. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Herbert Gans, Herbert Gans -, Herbert Jq Gans, Herbert J. Gans

Werken van Herbert J. Gans

Populair Recent

The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans (1962) 140 exemplaren

Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time (1979) — Auteur — 96 exemplaren

The Levittowners (1750) 83 exemplaren

The War Against The Poor: The Underclass And Antipoverty Policy (1995) 78 exemplaren

Democracy and the News (2003) 47 exemplaren

People and plans; essays on urban problems and solutions (1968) 33 exemplaren

More equality (1972) 25 exemplaren

Middle American Individualism: The Future of Liberal Democracy (1988) 18 exemplaren

People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems (1991) 14 exemplaren

Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together after Bush (2008) 8 exemplaren

On the Making of Americans: Essays in Honor of David Riesman (1979) — Redacteur — 7 exemplaren

Making Sense of America (1999) 4 exemplaren

Sociology in America (American Sociological Association Presidential Series) (1990) 2 exemplaren

The uses of television and their educational implications: Preliminary findings from a survey of adult and adolescent… 1 exemplaar

Sociology and Social Policy: Essays on Community, Economy, and Society (2017) 1 exemplaar

People, Plans, and Politics: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems 1 exemplaar

Populer Kultur ve Yuksek Kultur (2005) 1 exemplaar

Werk verkenner

Gerelateerde werken

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 514 exemplaren

Urban renewal; the record and the controversy (1966) — Medewerker — 22 exemplaren

Conflict Issues in Sociology: Introductory Readings (1990) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar

Tagged

20e eeuw (4) Amerikaanse Cultuur (5) Antropologie (5) Armoede (14) Boston (10) Cultuur (8) Cultuurwetenschappen (10) Economie (4) gelezen (3) Geography/Urban Studies (3) Geschiedenis (9) in bezit (4) Italian Americans (8) Journalistiek (14) Klasse (4) Kunst (4) Media (14) MIT OCW (6) Nieuws (5) Non-fictie (23) ongelezen (4) Planning (3) Planologie (9) Politicologie (8) Politiek (9) Popcultuur (12) School of Architecture and Planning (school) (6) Sociologie (80) Stedelijk (11) steden (4) te lezen (13) Theorie (7) Thuis (4) urban sociology (6) urban studies (5) urban-studies-and-planning (subject) (6) Urbanisme (5) Verenigde Staten (6) Voorstad (4) West End (5)

Trefwoordvertaling ingeschakeld

Algemene kennis

Gangbare naam: Gans, Herbert J.
Geboortedatum: 1927
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Germany (birth)
Woonplaatsen: Cologne, Germany
New York, New York, USA
Opleiding: University of Pennsylvania
Beroepen: sociologist
university professor
Organisaties: Columbia University

Leden

Besprekingen

2/26/22

Gemarkeerd

laplantelibrary | 7 andere besprekingen | Feb 26, 2022 |

I won't be able to finish. I knew he was blowing it out of his ass when he said that popular culture should be taxed to support high culture. Culture exists because of the financial support of its patrons, not at the whim of a central cultural authority. If it doesn't pay, it doesn't play. Shakespeare knew that. So did Johnson. Joyce didn't know and we got that grad student doorstop 'Ulysses'. Really, just an aggravating book and typical of the sanctimonious editorializing that passes for academic discussion where nicely parsed models are fobbed off as insight. Read Warshow's 'The Immediate Experience' instead, top it off with Chesterton's essay 'In Praise of Penny Dreadfuls' and you've left Gans far behind.… (meer)

Gemarkeerd

SomeGuyInVirginia | 7 andere besprekingen | May 8, 2012 |

Gans does a nice job of debunking certain elitist assumptions about the effects of popular culture that too often go unchallenged.

Gemarkeerd

deanmachine | 7 andere besprekingen | Feb 26, 2010 |

I found his analysis of different taste cultures to be helpful, but pretty much flat-out disagree with a lot of what he implies. Would have been much better to do a full update of this book, rather than a postscript that allows the writer to dodge inconsistencies between old text and current reality.

Gemarkeerd

alissamarie | 7 andere besprekingen | Oct 25, 2009 |

Bekijk meer besprekingen