Herbert J. Gans

Autor von Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste

18+ Werke 720 Mitglieder 9 Rezensionen

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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen

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

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

The Levittowners (1750) 83 Exemplare

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

Democracy and the News (2003) 47 Exemplare

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

More equality (1972) 25 Exemplare

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

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

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

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

Making Sense of America (1999) 4 Exemplare

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

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

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

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

Populer Kultur ve Yuksek Kultur (2005) 1 Exemplar

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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 514 Exemplare

Urban renewal; the record and the controversy (1966) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare

Conflict Issues in Sociology: Introductory Readings (1990) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform: Gans, Herbert J.
Geburtstag: 1927
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA
Deutschland (Geburt)
Wohnorte: Köln, Deutschland
New York, New York, USA
Ausbildung: University of Pennsylvania
Berufe: Soziologe
Dozent
Organisationen: Columbia University

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laplantelibrary | 7 weitere Rezensionen | 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.… (mehr)

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SomeGuyInVirginia | 7 weitere Rezensionen | May 8, 2012 |

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

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deanmachine | 7 weitere Rezensionen | 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.

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alissamarie | 7 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 25, 2009 |

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