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Claude S. Fischer and Michael HoutPublication Details
BookRussell Sage Foundation2006Availability
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In Century of Difference, Claude Fischer and Michael Hout provide a compelling–and often surprising–new take on the divisions and commonalities among the American public over the tumultuous course of the twentieth century. Using a hundred years’ worth of census and opinion poll data, Century of Difference shows how the social, cultural, and economic fault lines in American life shifted in the last century. Century of Difference lucidly profiles the evolution of American social and cultural differences over the last century, examining the shifting importance of education, marital status, race, ancestry, gender, and other factors on the lives of Americans past and present. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- National characteristics, American
- Social change — United States — History — 20th century
- Social conflict — United States — History — 20th century
- Social stratification — United States — History — 20th century
- Pluralism (Social sciences) — United States — History — 20th century
- United States — History — 20th century
- United States — Social conditions — 20th century
Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The American variations, 1900 to 2000
- How America expanded education and why it mattered
- Where Americans came from : race, immigration, and ancestry / with Aliya Saperstein
- How Americans lived : families and life courses in flux / with Jon Stiles
- How Americans worked : new workers, new jobs, and new differences
- What Americans had : differences in living standards / with Jon Stiles
- Where Americans lived : the redrawing of America’s social geography / with Jon Stiles
- How Americans prayed : religious diversity and change - - When Americans disagreed : cultural fragmentation and conflict
- Conclusion: the direction of Americans’ differences
- Appendix A: Combining parametric and nonparametric regressions to study how trends differ among subpopulations
- Appendix B: Income differences or income ratios?
- Appendix C: Procedures and data for the fragmentation analysis in chapter 9 / by Jane Zavisca
ISBN
- 0871543524
- 9780871543523
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