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Article: Middle American Individualism: The Future of Liberal Democracy.
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- June 4, 1988
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MIDDLE AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM: The Future of Liberal Democracy. By Herbert J. Gans. The Free Press. 208 pp. $19.95.
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Pumping Polyester MICHAEL SCHUDSON
It is something of a shock to discover that Herbert J. Gans is now president of the American Sociological Association. It is not so much that his doctorate is in city planning rather than sociology, or that he is a social democrat who writes for both academic and popular publications. The surprise is that someone widely known in and outside sociology as a fieldworker, a careful attender to the everyday lives of ordinary people, should be so honored. There is nothing ...