Robert L. Lineberry

From Political Sociology to Political Economy: The State of Theory in Urban Research

politics and social life of urban populations had even then been going on for fifty years. More than five decades have now passed since that milestone, and the purpose here is to examine the state of the research. The transformation can be described in several ways. One is an increasing bifurcation of urban research from a political agenda to a scientific one, what Hugh D. Price once called the difference between an &dquo;actordefined&dquo; and an &dquo;observer-defined&dquo; research strategy. Another way in which this century plus of urban research may be characterized is to suggest that it has moved from a dominant emphasis on political sociology to one stressing political economy. How these transformations have been manifested is our concern here.

Book Review Essays : Sunbelt, Frostbelt—So What?

Ken Auletta, The Streets Were Paved with Gold: The Decline of New York, An American Tragedy (New York: Random House, 1979). 345 pp.

Social science in America : the first two hundred years

12.95 (cloth). Richard S. Morris, Bum Rap on America’s Cities: The Real Causes of Urban Decay (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1980). 198 pp. (cloth, paper). David C. Perry and Alfred J. Watkins (eds.), The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1978).

Equality and urban policy : the distribution of municipal public services

20.00 (cloth),

The New Urban Politics.

9.95 (paper).

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Introduction (Charles M. Bonjean) Times American Adventures: American Historians and Their Writing since 1776 (William Goetzmann) Economics: Its Direct and Indirect Impact in America, 1776-1976 (Joseph J. Spengler) Sociology in America: The Experience of Two Centuries (Robin M. Williams, Jr.) Understanding Political Life in America: The Contribution of Political Science (Heinz Eulau) Anthropology and America (Walter Goldschmidt) American Geography: Social Science Emergent (Kevin R. Cox) The Social Sciences in America: Some Comments on Past, Present, and Future (Louis Schneider)