he has been writing about the folks that he calls 'middle Americans' for almost 40 years...his book _Urban Villagers_ (1962) was about an Italian community in Boston...the topic of _Levittowners_ (1967) is obvious...Gans concluded that white middle-strata suburbanites were little different from their white middle-strata counterparts living in cities, the alleged differences owed to the way groups were sorted out in the metropolitan landscape...
Gans' _Deciding the News_ (1978) took 'middle Americans' to be the targeted audience for news...I already mentioned _Middle American Individualism_ (1988)...
he has said that his political sympathies are with the poor because they need more help than anyone else...In addition to _The War Against the Poor_ (1995), he wrote _More Equality_ (1973)...he has consistently pushed for income redistribution, job training programs, national industrial policy (promoting a labor-intensive rather than a capital-intensive economy), and a shorter work week... he has also indicated that he does not think that such proposals are politically feasible...Michael Hoover