Herbert J. Gans
Julius Herbert Gans ( born May 7, 1927 in Cologne) is an American sociologist. He was 79th president of the American Sociological Association.
Career
Goose in 1940 emigrated with his family from Nazi Germany to the United States. He studied sociology at the University of Chicago (including with David Riesman ), and at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught from 1971 to 2007 as a professor at Columbia University (New York) and was thus as Emeritus very long academically active.
Work
His research findings about the " fallacy of architectural determinism " goose took considerable influence on urban planning. In the context of participant observation goose had determined at the beginning of the 1960s that the then large-scale urban renewal ( destruction of so-called slums ) would miss its intended aim of social policy. They had viewed the structural and physical environment " slum " as a cause of social problems. Goose finished against the fact that it was quite social relations and institutions in slums and thus could not be of a social neglect of the question. Indeed, the social bonds are characterized by a family-centered lifestyle and binding neighborly contacts. For this lifestyle goose found the term "urban villager " ( " urban villagers "). Meanwhile life more clearly from the individualized, anonymous and middle class oriented big-city ideas of urban planners.
According to Hartmut Häußermann provide Gans ' studies
In addition, researched and published goose on issues of cultural difference between the social classes, media sociology and the sociology of sociology.
In 1988 he was president of the American Sociological Association.
Writings (selection )
- The Urban Villagers. Group and Class in the Life of Italian -Americans first in 1962, Advanced edition: Free Press 1982, ISBN 0029112400
- The Levittowners (1967)
- People and Plans (1968 )
- More Equality (1973 )
- Deciding What 's News: A study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek, and Time (1979 )
- Middle American Individualism (1988 )
- People, Plans, and Policies (1991 )
- The War Against The Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy, Basic Books 1996, ISBN 0465019919
- Making Sense of America ( 1999)
- Democracy and the News (2003)
- Imagining America in 2033 (2008)
- Gans, Herbert J.: Working in Six Research Areas: A Multi - Field Sociological Career. In: Annual Review of Sociology. 35, 2009, pp. 1 doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115936.