Contributor
Wolfe, Alan, 1942-
Imprint:Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991.
Descriptionxv, 579 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Backward toward the postmodern family: reflections on gender, kinship, and class in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey -- Coping with commitment: dilemmas and conflicts of family life / Kathleen Gerson -- Minor difficulties: changing children in the late 20th century / Gary Alan Fine, Jay Mechling -- Ambivalent communities: how Americans understand their localities / Claude S. Fischer -- Mirrors and metaphors: the United States and its trade rivals / Fred Block -- Uncertain seas: cultural turmoil and the domestic economy / Katherine S. Newman -- Labor and management in uncertain times: renegotiating the social contract / Ruth Milkman -- The blue-collar working class: continuity and change / David Halle, Frank Romo -- The enduring dilemma of race in America / Bart Landry -- Passages to America: perspectives on the new immigration / Rubén g. Rumbaut -- The hollow center: U.S. cities in the global era / Sharon Zukin -- National news center and the rise of the informational citizen / Michael Schudson -- Schools under pressure / Caroline Hodges Persell -- Doctor no longer knows best: changing American attitudes toward medicine and health / Jonathan B. Imber -- Unlikely alliances: the changing contous of American religious faith / James Davison Hunter, John Steadman Rice -- Pluralism and disdain: American culture today / Gaye Tuchman -- Complexities of conservatism: how conservatives understand the world / Rebecca Klatch -- The return of Rambo: war and culture in the post-Vietnamese era / J. William Gibson -- Criminals' passions and the progressive's dilemma / Jack Katz -- Through the prism of time: temporal structures in postindustrial America / Carmen Sirianni, Andrea Walsh -- Contentless consensus: the political discourse of a segmented society / Richard Madsen -- Out of the frying pan, into ... what? / Alan Wolfe.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-554) and index.
