Ghetto Revolts
transaction/Society Book Series
TA/S-1 Campus Power Struggle / Howard S. Becker
TA/S-2 Cuban Communism / Irving Louis Horowitz
TA/S-3 The Changing South / Raymond W. Mack
TA/S-4 Where Medicine Fails / Anselm L. Strauss
TA/S-5 The Sexual Scene / John H. Gagnon and William Simon
TA/S-6 Black Experience: Soul / Lee Rainwater
TA/S-7 Black Experience: The Transformation of Activism / August Meier
TA/S-8 Law and Order: Modern Criminals / James F. Short, Jr.
TA/S-9 Law and Order: The Scales of Justice / Abraham S. Blumberg
TA/S-10 Social Science and National Policy / Fred R. Harris
TA/S-11 Peace and the War Industry / Kenneth E. Boulding
TA/S-12 America and the Asian Revolutions / Robert Jay Lifton
TA/S-13 Law and Order: Police Encounters / Michael Lipsky
TA/S-14 American Bureaucracy / Warren G. Bennis
TA/S-15 The Values of Social Science / Norman K. Denzin
TA/S-16 Ghetto Revolts / Peter H. Rossi
TA/S-17 The Future Society / Donald N. Michael
TA/S-18 Awakening Minorities: American Indians, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans / John R. Howard
TA/S-19 The American Military / Martin Oppenheimer
TA/S-20 Total Institutions / Samuel E. Wallace
TA/S-21 The Anti-Amene an Generation / Edgar Z. Friedenberg
TA/S-22 Religion in Radical Transition / Jeffrey K. Hadden
TA/S-23 Culture and Civility in San Francisco / Howard S. Becker
TA/S-24 Poor Americans: How the White Poor Live / Marc Pilisuk and Phyllis Pilisuk
TA/S-25 Games, Sport and Power / Gregory P. Stone
TA/S-26 Beyond Conflict and Containment: Critical Studies of Military and Foreign Policy / Milton J. Rosenberg
TA/S-27 Muckraking Sociology: Research as Social Criticism / Gary T. Marx
TA/S-28 Children and Their Caretakers / Norman K. Denzin
TA/S-29 How We Lost the War on Poverty / Marc Pilisuk and Phyllis Pilisuk
TA/S-30 Human Intelligence / J. McVicker Hunt
Unless otherwise indicated, the essays in this book originally appeared in transaction/Society magazine.
First published 1973 by Transaction, Inc.
First Edition Published 1970
Published 2019 by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
Copyright 1973 Taylor & Francis
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
Library of Congress Catalog Number 72-91469
ISBN 13: 978-0-87855-564-2 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-87855-067-8 (hbk)
Contents
Peter H. Rossi
Walter Williams
David Boesel, Richard Berk, W. Eugene Groves Bettye Eidson and Peter H. Rossi
Joseph N. Conforti
Howard Schuman
Tom Parmenter
Lee Rainwater
Russell Dynes and Enrico Quarantelli
Terry Ann Knopf
Michael Lipsky and David Olson
Marilynn Rosenthal
Robert S. Blauner
Edward Greer
Fred Barbaro
Guide
For the past decade, transaction, and now Society , has dedicated itself to the task of reporting the strains and conflicts within the American system. But the magazine has done more than this. It has pioneered in social programs for changing the social order, offered the kind of analysis that has permanently restructured the terms of the dialogue between peoples and publics, and offered the sort of prognosis that makes for real alterations in economic and political policies directly affecting our lives.
The work done in the magazine has crossed disciplinary boundaries. This represents much more than simple cross-disciplinary team efforts. It embodies rather a recognition that the social world cannot be easily carved into neat academic disciplines; that, indeed, the study of the experience of blacks in American ghettos, or the manifold uses and abuses of agencies of law enforcement, or the sorts of overseas policies that lead to the celebration of some dictatorships and the condemnation of others, can best be examined from many viewpoints and from the vantage points of many disciplines.
The editors of Society magazine are now making available in permanent form the most important work done in the magazine, supplemented in some cases by additional materials edited to reflect the tone and style developed over the years by transaction. Like the magazine, this series of books demonstrates the superiority of starting with real world problems and searching out practical solutions, over the zealous guardianship of professional boundaries. Indeed, it is precisely this approach that has elicited enthusiastic support from leading American social scientists, many of whom are represented among the editors of these volumes.
The subject matter of these books concerns social changes and social policies that have aroused the longstanding needs and present-day anxieties of us all. These changes are in organizational lifestyles, concepts of human ability and intelligence, changing patterns of norms and morals, the relationship of social conditions to physical and biological environments, and in the status of social science with respect to national policy making. The editors feel that many of these articles have withstood the test of time, and match in durable interest the best of available social science literature. This collection of essays, then, attempts to address itself to immediate issues without violating the basic insights derived from the classical literature in the various fields of social science.
As the political crises of the sixties have given way to the economic crunch of the seventies, the social scientists involved as editors and authors of this series have gone beyond observation of critical areas, and have entered into the vital and difficult tasks of explanation and interpretation. They have defined issues in a way that makes solutions possible. They have provided answers as well as asked the right questions. These books, based as they are upon the best materials from trans action/ Society magazine, are dedicated to highlighting social problems alone, and beyond that, to establishing guidelines for social solutions based on the social sciences.
The remarkable success of the book series to date is indicative of the need for such fastbacks in college course work and, no less, in the everyday needs of busy people who have not surrendered the need to know, nor the lively sense required to satisfy such knowledge needs. It is also plain that what superficially appeared as a random selection of articles on the basis of subject alone, in fact, represented a careful concern for materials that are addressed to issues at the shank and marrow of society. It is the distillation of the best of these, systematically arranged, that appears in these volumes.
