{"id":5530,"date":"2025-04-23T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:30:53","slug":"herbert-j-gans-97-dies-upended-myths-on-urban-and-suburban-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/herbert-j-gans-97-dies-upended-myths-on-urban-and-suburban-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life\" target=\"_blank\">Herbert J. Gans<\/a> an eminent sociologist who studied the communities and cultural bastions of America up close and shattered popular myths about urban and suburban life, poverty, ethnic groups and the news media, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. <\/p>\n<p>For \u201cThe Urban Villagers\u201d (1962), Dr. Gans immersed himself in Boston\u2019s working-class West End, heavily populated by Italian Americans.Credit&#8230;<br \/>\nDr. Gans challenged conventional wisdom about postwar suburbia in \u201cThe Levittowners,\u201d his 1967 book about a middle-class development community in New Jersey.<br \/>\nIn \u201cThe War Against the Poor\u201d (1995), Dr. Gans attacked attitudes of the affluent and middle classes as well as words used to stereotype and stigmatize the poor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In \u201cThe War Against the Poor\u201d (1995), Dr. Gans scathingly attacked attitudes of the affluent and middle classes, and words used to stereotype and stigmatize the poor by questioning their morality and values. One culprit, he said, was \u201cunderclass,\u201d with its connotation of permanence, and its presumption that all the men are lazy, all the women immoral and all the poor too undisciplined to escape welfare dependencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a 2008 book, \u201cImagining America in 2033,\u201d Dr. Gans depicted a utopian future that had overcome many economic, military and social problems.Credit&#8230;University of Michigan Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert J. Gans an eminent sociologist who studied the communities and cultural bastions of America up close and shattered popular myths about urban and suburban life, poverty, ethnic groups and the news media, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. For \u201cThe Urban Villagers\u201d (1962), Dr. Gans immersed himself in Boston\u2019s &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/herbert-j-gans-97-dies-upended-myths-on-urban-and-suburban-life\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,2148,13,14,15,17],"tags":[5104,5102,5101,5105,5108,5107,1204,5106,5103,5109],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-5530","6":"format-standard","7":"category-ethical-and-green-living","8":"category-faits-divers","9":"category-obituaries","10":"category-politics","11":"category-racism","12":"category-science","13":"category-thinking-about","14":"post_tag-economic-problems","15":"post_tag-herbert-gans","16":"post_tag-herbert-j-gans","17":"post_tag-highbrow-and-popular-cultures","18":"post_tag-kerner-commission","19":"post_tag-liberal-activist","20":"post_tag-nixon","21":"post_tag-nostalgia-for-the-rural-past","22":"post_tag-race-relations","23":"post_tag-the-urban-villagers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}