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This paper explores the topographical and socio-cultural developments during the Golden Age in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, three Beat Generation epicenters, which determined the deconstruction of traditional norms. Modifications at both city and society levels were represented by the emergence of countercultures, such as the Beat. The visibility received by urban problems, due to the increase in social demonstrations and activism, fostered the formation of a unified front that demanded equality and encouraged social and political movements, such as the Civil Rights and the Second Wave Feminism. The socio-political challenges which the American society was confronted with from the 1950s to the 1970s in these three cities, also reveal a few problems regarding the status of the Beats as well as of minorities in metropolises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on job polarization and increasing inequality in the nation and in northern New Jersey region. It says that changes in globalization and technology appear to drive behind job polarization and through automation and the substitution of low-cost labor from other countries increased employment opportunities for high-skill workers. It adds that the job growth in New York and New Jersey was because of lower-middle-skill jobs and fast-low-skill group.

The article discusses fairness and equality in relation to the use of a sharing-related rotation (taking turns) method for distributing the disputed property in a U.S. decedent's estate as of 2015, and it mentions the 1973 New York case In re Estate of McDowell which deals with two siblings and a dispute over the possession of a chair. Distributive justice is examined, along with several forms of rotations such as single-object and multiple-object rotations.

The article discusses the role of outsider narrative theory in relation to legal advocacy against discriminatory policing in places such as New York, New York. Vulnerability and social inequities are mentioned, along with an anti-stop-and-frisk police technique movement. An American lawyer's role in understanding and promoting narrative in mobilization against aggressive policing is examined, as well as police-citizen relations and police-related legal cases such as Terry v. Ohio.

The article explores the vigorous but unsuccessful opposition to the passage of a fair employment practices law to outlaw discrimination in employment in New York. A resistance against affirmative action and civil rights first emerged during World War II when the state contemplated the passage of the fair employment law. The author focuses on the opposition by business groups, rural and suburban whites, and conservative Republicans. Opponents decried the law as imposing racial quotas and betraying U.S. beliefs in equality. This opposition provides a perspective on the fall of the New Deal order and the rise of the New Right.

The article presents reply to James P. Pitts in response to his comments on group disorders in the public school by Sociologists Pual Ritterband and Richard Silberstein. The authors say that in "Group Disorders in the Public Schools," they set out to understand and explain the distribution of two related sets of events in the high schools of New York City. The article was not set out to explain inequality in the schools nor did it attempt to describe the ways in which schools sort people into the general social structure. The authors did not and do not feel that every sociologist who deals with questions of race has to recapitulate the history of inequality. On the most primitive empiricist level, the authors were able to show that the distribution of non-political disorder was relatively random in the New York City High School context during their study. They deny inequality in school resources and achievement. They demonstrated that more money is spent on black pupils in New York City than Puerto Ricans or Whites, though the way the money is spent makes no dent in the educational problem.