Book
The urban villagers: group and class in the life of Italian-Americans
Free Press ; Collier Macmillan Publishers • New York • Published In 1982 • Pages:
By: Gans, Herbert J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a first-hand account of Italian Americans in an inner city neighborhood in Boston's west end. The document is systematic and sensitive in the analysis of working class culture, and of the politicians, planners and other outside professionals who affected it. In the text "…Gans compares West Enders to Americans of different classes, races, and ethnic groups and tells what happened when the area fell victim to the bulldozer. In the process, he raises crucial questions about the nature of the family and peer group, community and urbanism, policy and progress in modern America. Gans rejects the conventional wisdom about ethnic culture, slums, and urban renewal " (overleaf).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Social personality
- Sociocultural trends
- Housing
- Urban and rural life
- Classes
- Social relationships and groups
- Family relationships
- Health and welfare
- Ethnosociology
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late nineteenth century - 1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- West End, Boston, Mass., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Herbert J. Gans
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 418-432) and indexes
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82008577
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans