Yankee City Series: The Social Life Of A Modern Community; The Status System Of A Modern Community; The Social Systems Of American Ethnic Groups; The Social System Of The Modern Factory
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few sociological projects in American history have proven as ambitious or as enduring as the Yankee City Series, a landmark four-volume study of social stratification, ethnic identity, and industrial life in a small New England city — a thinly veiled Newburyport, Massachusetts. Spanning from The Social Life of a Modern Community through The Status System of a Modern Community, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups, and culminating in The Social System of the Modern Factory, the series presents an unprecedented ethnographic portrait of mid-20th-century America, chronicling the intricate hierarchies of class, culture, and community that shape everyday life. Authored by W. Lloyd Warner in collaboration with Paul S. Lunt, Leo Srole, and J.O. Low, the series argues with meticulous rigour that American society — far from the classless ideal it professes — is deeply stratified along lines of status, ethnicity, and economic power. Yale University Press published these volumes to wide academic acclaim, and they remain essential texts in the fields of sociology and cultural anthropology, establishing Warner as a foundational figure in empirical social research. Scholars and general readers alike will find in these pages a forensic dissection of the American social fabric that is as provocative today as when it was first written.
Author: W. Lloyd Warner, Paul S. Lunt, Leo Srole, J.O. Low
Format: Hardback
Published: 1941, Yale University Press
Genre: Society & culture
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Few sociological projects in American history have proven as ambitious or as enduring as the Yankee City Series, a landmark four-volume study of social stratification, ethnic identity, and industrial life in a small New England city — a thinly veiled Newburyport, Massachusetts. Spanning from The Social Life of a Modern Community through The Status System of a Modern Community, The Social Systems of American Ethnic Groups, and culminating in The Social System of the Modern Factory, the series presents an unprecedented ethnographic portrait of mid-20th-century America, chronicling the intricate hierarchies of class, culture, and community that shape everyday life. Authored by W. Lloyd Warner in collaboration with Paul S. Lunt, Leo Srole, and J.O. Low, the series argues with meticulous rigour that American society — far from the classless ideal it professes — is deeply stratified along lines of status, ethnicity, and economic power. Yale University Press published these volumes to wide academic acclaim, and they remain essential texts in the fields of sociology and cultural anthropology, establishing Warner as a foundational figure in empirical social research. Scholars and general readers alike will find in these pages a forensic dissection of the American social fabric that is as provocative today as when it was first written.