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The inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these regimes of command-and-control not only annoy and intimidate but are counterproductive. Sociologist Harvey Molotch takes us through the sites, the gizmos, and the politics to urge greater trust in basic citizen capacities-along with smarter design of public spaces. In a new preface, he discusses abatement of panic and what the NSA leaks reveal about the real holes in our security.

Transportation --- National security --- Terrorism --- Homeland defense --- Homeland security --- Security measures --- Prevention --- Government policy --- Social psychology --- Sociology of environment --- Internal politics --- Freedom Tower. --- Ground Zero. --- Gulf Coast. --- Hurricane Katrina. --- New Orleans. --- New York subway system. --- One World Trade Center. --- U.S. security. --- air travel. --- airport security. --- airports. --- anxiety. --- body search. --- canals. --- class. --- command and control. --- command. --- control. --- crises. --- danger. --- disaster response. --- ecological reform. --- fear of flying. --- fear. --- gender discrimination. --- human goals. --- human territory. --- levees. --- mass transport. --- natural disasters. --- post 9/11. --- public policy. --- public restroom. --- public restrooms. --- public transport. --- race. --- rebuilding. --- remediation. --- safety. --- security policy. --- security. --- threat.

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In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. The product of two years of living in Levittown, the work chronicles the invention of a new community and its major institutions, the beginnings of social and political life, and the former city residents' adaptation to suburban living. Gans uses his research to reject the charge that suburbs are sterile and pathological. First published in 1967, The Levittowners is a classic of participant-observer ethnography that also paints a sensitive portrait of working-class and lower-middle-class life in America. This new edition features a foreword by Harvey Molotch that reflects on Gans's challenges to conventional wisdom.

Suburban life. --- Suburbs --- Willingboro (N.J. : Township) --- Township of Willingboro (N.J.) --- Levittown (N.J.) --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government.

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This text is a way to learn from the Persian Gulf - to use its cities, cultures, and politics to broaden our understanding of how wealth and power operate in the world today.

Urbanization --- City planning --- Persian Gulf Region --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions.

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Sociology of environment --- Economic geography --- United States --- United States of America