Different types of time-series data sets can be used to identify cultural change and continuity. Indicators, including musical instruments, clothing, sporting goods, drugs, garbage, telephones, and magazines, are used to study social change since World War II. (Author/RM)

Reviews and assesses selected topics within the field of urban sociology in the United States. Topics addressed are the growth of large cities, expansion of urban populations and industry, residential segregation by race/ethnicity, emergence of a societywide and multidimensional system of cities, and the recent growth of nonmetropolitan countries…