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60
Citations
38828
World Ranking
1398
National Ranking
659

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association
  • 1999 - Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association
  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1977 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Herbert J. Gans is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their academic work includes collaborations with several frequent co-authors, highlighting a network of scholarly interaction.

  • Kate Wahl
  • Clude Abrego
  • Richard Alba
  • Linda Allegro
  • Rene Almeling

Throughout their career, Gans has received multiple recognitions from prominent academic and professional organizations.

  • W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association (2006)
  • Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association (1999)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1982)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1977)

No recent papers, specific publication venues, or book publications have been documented in the available data. Information about Gans's main fields of study, subfields, and main research topics is also not provided.

Best Publications

  • Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time

    Herbert Julius Gans

  • Symbolic ethnicity: The future of ethnic groups and cultures in America*

    Herbert J. Gans

  • Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The Levittowners: Ways of life and politics in a new suburban community

    Herbert J. Gans

  • Second-Generation Decline: Scenarios for the Economic and Ethnic Futures of the Post-1965 American Immigrants

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The War Against The Poor: The Underclass And Antipoverty Policy

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The urban villagers

    Andrew M. Greeley;Herbert Gans

  • The Urban Villagers: Group And Class In The Life Of Italian-Americans

    Herbert J. Gans

  • People and plans : essays on urban problems and solutions

    Herbert Julius Gans

  • Democracy and the News

    Herbert J. Gans

  • Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life

    H.J. Gans

  • Toward a reconciliation of "assimilation" and "pluralism": the interplay of acculturation and ethnic retention.

    Herbert J. Gans

  • Symbolic ethnicity and symbolic religiosity: Towards a comparison of ethnic and religious acculturation

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The Positive Functions of Poverty

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The Participant-Observer as a Human Being: Observations on the Personal Aspects of Field Work

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The Possibility of a New Racial Hierarchy in the Twenty-First-Century United States

    Herbert J. Gans

  • PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION IN THE ERA OF “ETHNOGRAPHY”:

    Herbert J. Gans

  • Middle American Individualism: The Future of Liberal Democracy

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The Sociology of Space: A Use–Centered View:

    Herbert J. Gans

  • People, Plans, and Policies : Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems

    Herbert J. Gans

  • The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans

    Richard K. Brown;Herbert J. Gans

  • The War against the Poor: The Underclass and Anti-Poverty Policy

    Loic J. D. Wacquant;Herbert Gans

Frequent Co-Authors

James F. Wilson
James F. Wilson University of Edinburgh
Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan University of Toronto
Paul F. Lazarsfeld
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Columbia University
Rodney Stark
Rodney Stark Baylor University
John Friedmann
John Friedmann University of British Columbia
Robert A. LeVine
Robert A. LeVine Harvard University
John D. Kasarda
John D. Kasarda University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton Columbia University
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno Goethe University Frankfurt

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