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<p>By questioning the widely accepted picture of suburban society which has been developed by many sociologists, social psychologists, and other serious students of social science, as well as by popular writers, this book will challenge much of our thinking about certain trends and developments in present-day society. The author, a distinguished Canadian sociologist, shows that there is no essential difference between the new society of the suburbs and any other new society in terms of the kind of forces which produced it. The suburban societies so far studied, he maintains, have been selected because they conform to the existing stereotype, and so the myths have been perpetuated.</p><p>Professor Clark pays special attention to the mass-developed suburbs. He shows that most suburban dwellers live in areas undergoing mass development, and that in such areas none of the characteristics &nbsp;commonly attributed to suburbia are to be found. The people who have moved to the suburbs in such large numbers are not, the author claims, &quot;other directed&quot; as Riesman would maintain, or &quot;organization men&quot; as Whyte has called them. They were, rather, mainly interested in findi

Who reads The Suburban Society?

Author

Clark, S.D.

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1966

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442652811

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Social Science