Packard, Vance
Nation Of Strangers A Nation Of Strangers Vance Packard - New York David McKay Co. 1972 - xiv, 368 p.
Contents:
A society of torn roots
Towns for company gypsies
Migrating firms, and the towns they invade
The three-shift towns
Staging areas for modern nomads
Life on the nuclear frontier
Collegiate breeding grounds for transients
The snowbirds of centrifugal families
Ethnic churning in people-imploding cities
And three novel forms of urban sprawl
What it means to transplant today's family
On rebuilding a social circle
New institutions to serve high-mobiles
The arguments for a high-mobile society
Curious life styles of loosely rooted people
Two towns: a comparison in personal relations
Proneness to malaise of loosely rooted people
Impact on the children
People turnover and community demoralization
On recovering our sense of continuity
New approaches to a sense of community
Are one-layer communities the answer?
New towns, and a bold test of neighborliness
Deals with the massive uprooting and the fragmentation of our society as people move from job to job and city to city
9780671786625 0671786628
Loneliness
Social Conditions
Transients and Migrants
United States --Social conditions--1960-1980
301.3260973 Pac 9
Nation Of Strangers A Nation Of Strangers Vance Packard - New York David McKay Co. 1972 - xiv, 368 p.
Contents:
A society of torn roots
Towns for company gypsies
Migrating firms, and the towns they invade
The three-shift towns
Staging areas for modern nomads
Life on the nuclear frontier
Collegiate breeding grounds for transients
The snowbirds of centrifugal families
Ethnic churning in people-imploding cities
And three novel forms of urban sprawl
What it means to transplant today's family
On rebuilding a social circle
New institutions to serve high-mobiles
The arguments for a high-mobile society
Curious life styles of loosely rooted people
Two towns: a comparison in personal relations
Proneness to malaise of loosely rooted people
Impact on the children
People turnover and community demoralization
On recovering our sense of continuity
New approaches to a sense of community
Are one-layer communities the answer?
New towns, and a bold test of neighborliness
Deals with the massive uprooting and the fragmentation of our society as people move from job to job and city to city
9780671786625 0671786628
Loneliness
Social Conditions
Transients and Migrants
United States --Social conditions--1960-1980
301.3260973 Pac 9