Reviews for Industrializing America: Understanding
Contemporary Society through Classical Sociological Analysis
"It deserves to be read and used as a textbook in a wide variety of introductory
courses in sociology, anthropology and sociocultural theory. It can also serve
as a text for American studies courses since it contains in-depth descriptions
of basic trends in American society and culture, shedding new light on the core
institutions of government, global corporations, health care bureaucracies, food
production, manufacturing and many other features of what is often but
erroneously called 'post-industrialism.' Against the main current of the social
sciences, here is a book that returns us to the classical view that societies
and cultures can best be understood as entities whose parts fit together to form
systems."
--Marvin Harris author of Cultural Materialism: The Struggle
for a Science of Culture