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1. Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time
by Professor Herbert Gans
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who ... More
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2. The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
by Professor Herbert Gans
In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern ... More
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3. The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy
by Professor Herbert Gans
"In his withering dissection of the origins and misuse of the term "underclass" to stereotype and stigmatize the poor, Herbert J. Gans shows how this ... More
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4. Democracy and the News
by Professor Herbert Gans
American democracy was founded on the belief that ultimate power rests in an informed citizenry. But that belief appears naive in an era when private ... More
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5. Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste Revised and Updated
by Professor Herbert Gans
In this brilliantly conceived and clearly argued discussion of the relationship between high and popular culture, Herbert Gans, outspoken advocate of ... More
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6. Making Sense of America: Sociological Analyses and Essays
by Professor Herbert Gans
This new collection of Herbert J. Gans's scholarly and other writings, including excerpts from his most prominent ethnographic books, The Urban ... More
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7. People, Plans, and Policies: Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems
by Professor Herbert Gans
The primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism and until these concerns are addressed by ... More
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9. The Urban Villagers
by Professor Herbert Gans
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10. Middle American Individualism: The Future of Liberal Democracy
by Professor Herbert Gans
Gans grapples with today's most pressing problem--the need for a sense of "community" in America, he provides a vivid portrait of the lifestyle and ... More
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12. Sociology in America
by Prof. Herbert J Gans, Professor Herbert Gans
Drawn from the plenary sessions of the 1988 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, these papers explore the relationship between ... More
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13. Imagining America in 2033: How the Country Put Itself Together After Bush
by Professor Herbert J Gans
A utopian narrative
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