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Religion and Stratification
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Religion and Stratification
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1994
eBook Published 31 October 2017
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 313
eBook ISBN 9781351294683
Subjects Social Sciences
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Baltzell, E.D., & Schneiderman, H.G. (Eds.). (1994). Judgment and Sensibility: Religion and Stratification (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351294683
ABSTRACT
Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E. Digby Baltzell, one of the keenest observers and analysts of America's upper classes since Thorstein Veblen. Spanning four decades of writing, these essays cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary politics, democratic elitism, Puritanism, Judaism, higher education, urbanization, and the U.S. Supreme Court, among others.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter Introduction|24 pages
Thoughts Out of Season
E. Digby Baltzell and the Protestant Establishment
ByHoward G. Schneiderman
chapter 1|22 pages
From Rags to Robes: The Horatio Alger Myth and the Supreme Court
ByHoward G. Schneiderman
chapter 3|10 pages
Class Authority in American History
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 6|4 pages
Gentlemen in Crisis: The Union League of Philadelphia
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 9|4 pages
From Patrician to Professional Elite
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 12|4 pages
The Celebrity and the Gentleman
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 15|2 pages
Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 16|2 pages
Tocqueville and the Problem of Democracy
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 17|2 pages
The Rise and Fall of the Elites
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 18|8 pages
Five Contemporary Ben Franklins
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 19|4 pages
The Architecture of Frank Furness
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 20|6 pages
Philadelphia, the Crossroads of America
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 23|20 pages
Goodbye to All That: Upper-Class Origins of American Sport
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 26|6 pages
An Exploration of Subculture in American Life
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 28|10 pages
Bell Telephone’s Experiment in Education
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 30|12 pages
Urbanization and Governmental Administration
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 31|6 pages
Class and Scientism: America and England
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 34|8 pages
Changes in the Philadelphia Jewish Community
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 35|38 pages
The Jewish Communities of Philadelphia and Boston, 1740-1940: A Tale of Two Cities
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
chapter 37|38 pages
Drunk as a Lord, Sober as a Judge: The English Reformation and the Puritans
Edited ByE. Digby Baltzell, Howard G. Schneiderman
