282 Pages
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Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
281 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement within American society from one status to another. The most important images of mobility involve self-improvement by changing location (going to the frontier, coming to the big city), and by changing... Read more
Introduction; One: Limitations of Research and Theory; Two: Ideology; One: Images of the Frontier; Two: Rural Images; Three: Urban Images; Four: The Imagery of Immigration and Ethnicity; Five: Images of Industrialization, I; Six: Images of Industrialization, II; Seven: Images of Civilization; Three: A Theory of Mobility; Eight: Direction and Distance; Nine: Temporal Aspects of Mobility; Ten: The Articulation of Concerns; Eleven: The Shape of Mobility; Epilogue: The Variable Society, Chinese Boxes, and the Concerned Citizen
Biography
Anselm L. Strauss
