James Wright – författare & böcker

State of the Masses

Sources of Discontent, Change and Stability

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

790 kr

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Is the consciousness of Americans in the midst of dramatic transformation? Or do people think and feel much the same as they have always thought and felt? Do most people enjoy their work, or hate it? Is the American family being replaced by new institutional forms, or is it much the same as it was in the 1950's? Have material values been replaced by a "postmaterial consciousness" in a postindustrial society? Are Americans becoming more conservative, less conservative, or staying about the same? State of the Masses asks the important questions.Originally published in 1986, this prescient study evaluate the views of social critics, neo-conservatives, neo-Marxists, post-industrialists, and the theorists of the little man, who puport to describe the nature, social conditions, outlooks, and motivations of the American populace. The claims of one group are often diametrically opposed to those of another. The authors make the case for which claims can be considered true and which false. Hamilton and Wright analyze the contradictory claims and compares their implications with the best social science research and data available at that time. They also explore the implications for theories in light of the conflicting portrait the evidence provides. The authors conclude with a new perspective for understanding continuities and changes in the United States. This is a prescient view of American society during turmoil, and a model for how social science research can be used predictively.

Address Unknown

The Homeless in America

AvJames Wright,James Wright

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

706 kr

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Homelessness in America has grown from a minor problem in isolated areas of a few big cities into a near epidemic. Today, scarcely any American city of any appreciable size lacks homeless people. Homeless shelters and programs have become as essential and as commonplace as police protection or water and sewage treatment. What to do for, with, or about the homeless is a nagging and complex social policy issue debated at all levels of government.Address Unknown emphasizes the large-scale social and economic forces that have priced an increasingly large segment of the urban poor completely out of the housing market. Seen in this light, the problem of homelessness is that there are too many extremely poor people competing for too few aff ordable housing units. The nation would be facing a formidable homelessness problem even if there were no alcoholics, no drug addicts, no deinstitutionalized mentally ill people-no personal pathologies of any kind. Rather than a choice, homelessness is the result of housing markets that have very little to off er to extremely poor people.The plight of the homeless is very visible, and Address Unknown is one of the first major investigative studies into the nature and multiple causes of the problem. Wright considers demographic, economic, sociological, and social policy antecedents of homelessness. A hallmark is the delineation of the range of factors involved, including deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, urban renewal, the decrease in lower-skilled jobs, changing political priorities, and bureaucratic obstacles to providing existing social services to the homeless population.

James Wright – författare

State of the Masses

Address Unknown

Branch Will Not Break: 20th Century Nature Poems of North America

Branch Will Not Break: 20th Century Nature Poems of North America (Hardcover)

Above the River

Selected Poems

Collected Prose

Hangman's Apprentice

Critical Ethnic Studies and the Global Pursuit of Justice

Critical Ethnic Studies and the Global Pursuit of Justice

Surrender My Shadow to the Shadow of a Horse

Collected Poems

Treatise on the Causes and Cure of Stuttering

Another Account of a Transaction Which Passed in the Beginning of the Year 1778

Historia Histrionica

Historia Histrionica

Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber Written by Himself. A new ed. With Notes and Supplement by Robert W. Lowe; Volume 2

Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber Written by Himself. A new ed. With Notes and Supplement by Robert W. Lowe; Volume 2

Historical Sketches of the Town of Moravia, From 1791 to 1873

Historical Sketches of the Town of Moravia, From 1791 to 1873

Treatise on the Causes and Cure of Stuttering With Reference to Certain Modern Theories

School Orator, or, Excercises in Elocution

School Orator, or, Excercises in Elocution

Lost Souls

Lost Souls

Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State

State of the Masses

Enduring Vietnam

Lost Souls

Lost Souls