110 Livingston Street; politics and bureaucracy in the New York City school system. (reprint, 1968).0975273833 110 Livingston Street; politics and bureaucracy in the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. school system. (reprint, 1968) Rogers, David. Percheron Press 2006 584 pages $34.50 Paperback Foundations of sociology LA339 First published in 1968, this work by Rogers (Stern School of Business and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of U.) examines how the New York City public school system, based at 110 Livingston Street, handled desegregation desegregation: see integration. as a means of analyzing the wider issues of innovation and reform and the politics of school administration in large cities. His approach to the topic is through competing sociological models of the "mass society," one of which suggests that social and political changes in large cities are hampered because power is in the hands of a closed elite of public officials and civic groups insulated from the masses and with a vested interest Vested Interest A financial or personal stake one entity has in an asset, security, or transaction. Notes: For example, if you have a mortgage, your bank has a vested interest on the sale of your house. See also: Right in maintaining the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. and the other of which views change as hampered because of the increasing vulnerability of public officials in mass democracies to pressures and counterpressures from leaders representing various publics. This edition includes a prologue that reconsiders the text in light of developments over the past few decades. Percheron Press is the reprint imprint of Eliot Werner Publications. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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