by Theodore Caplow
In the United States, the era from 1960 to 1990 was marked both by remarkable achievements and by extraordinary setbacks. We landed on the moon but we lost our industrial peminence. We emancipated minorities but we created the most deprived underclass in the Western world. We were badly defeated in Vietnam but we won the cold war. We expanded the welfare state and we aggravated the problems of poverty, health care, crime, and education. We enacted political reforms and we got an unbroken string of political scandals. We enjoyed the longest economic boom in history and we incurred a mountain of debt. These pat three decades have been an era of mixed blessings.
More books by Theodore Caplow
The
First Measured Century: An Illustrated Gude to Trends in America, 1900-2000
Sociologie Militaire
The Academic Market Place
Peace Games
Perverse
Incentives - The Neglect of Social Technology in the Public Sector
Elementary Sociology
Recent Social
Trends in the United States 1960-1990
Leviathan
Transformed - Seven National States in the New Century
The Sociology of Work
The Urban
Ambience
Principles of Organization
Two Against One: Coalitions
in Triad
Old Men Drunk and Sober
Toward Social Hope
Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change & Continuity
All
Faithful People: Change & Continuity in Middletown's Religion
Managing
an Organization
Systems of War & Peace
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