1st Edition

When Ideas Mattered A Nathan Glazer Reader

362 Pages

by Routledge

362 Pages

by Routledge

362 Pages

by Routledge

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Sociologist Nathan Glazer's remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious intellect with a perpetual sense of curiosity, he defies easy labelling. When Ideas Mattered is a critical volume, but it also contains autobiographical essays Glazer has written over the years to explain the... Read more

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction

An Unreliable Man
Joseph Dorman

Part II: The Melting Pot and After

1 America's Ethnic Pattern: "Melting Pot" or "Nation of Nations" (1953)
2 American Jewry or American Judaism? (1991)
3 American Epic: Then and Now (1998)
4 Culture and Achievement (2000)
5 Assimilation Today: Is One Identity Enough? (2004)

Part III: On Race
6 America's Race Paradox: The Gap between Social Progress & Political Despair (1968)
7 Academic Freedom in the 1990s (1996)
8 Impediments to Integration (1999)
9 In Defence of Preference (1998)

Part IV: Social Policy
10 The Limits of Social Policy (1971)
11 Reform Work, Not Welfare (1975)

Part V: Architecture and Urbanism
12 On Subway Graffiti in New York (1979)
13 Paris—The View from New York (1984)
14 The Prince, the People, and the Architects (1990)

Part VI: Glazer on Glazer
15 My Life in Sociology (2012)
16 Commentary: The Early Years (2005)
17 On Being Deradicalized (1970)
18 Neoconservative from the Start (2005)

Part VII: Glazer on Sociology
19 Tocqueville and Riesman (2000)

Part VIII: Appraisals
20 America's Leading Neoconservative Social Democrat
E. J. Dionne, Jr.
21 A Beautiful Mind
Mark Lilla
22 "A Young Man at the Periphery of the Profession"
Peter Skerry
23 A Sociologist for All Seasons
Jackson Toby
24 Connecting the World of Thought
Reed Ueda

Contributors
Index