内容摘要：At Golden Lotus Market, you can pick up Vietnamese instant coffee and a cereal drink from Myanmar. A flyer taped to the store’s entrance and written in English, Spanish and Burmese announces a new youth sports league: “Do you like to play baseball?”

At Golden Lotus Market, you can pick up Vietnamese instant coffee and a cereal drink from Myanmar. A flyer taped to the store’s entrance and written in English, Spanish and Burmese announces a new youth sports league: “Do you like to play baseball?”

He found the news-gathering process to be honest and well intended. But Gans worried that organizations were more invested in stability and the status quo than in fully informing the public, with journalists drawing upon familiar sources in government and business and spending much of their private time with those of their social class. As a solution, Gans proposed “Multiperspectivism,” allowing everyone from radical leftists to religious fundamentalists to express their views.“For those who feel, as I do, that the interests of diverse groups have priority over the needs of nation and society, multiperspectival news and some decentralization of the national media are preferable,” he wrote. “It would be a good deal more effective if it coincided with widespread public demand for greater popular representation in the economy and the polity.”

Gans’ other books included “Middle American Individualism,” “The War Against the Poor” and “People, Plans and Policies.” In “Imagining America in 2033,” published in 2009, he outlined his hopes for a “fairer economy, a more democratic polity, and institutions that cater to a greater extent to the people they are supposed to serve.”Born in Cologne, Germany to middle-class Jewish parents, Gans and has family fled the Nazis in 1939, moving first to England and settling in Chicago in 1940. Gans became a naturalized citizen in 1945 and served in the Army in 1945-46. He had already liked reading sociology in high school and studied it as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where he became close to such faculty members as the social scientist Martin Meyerson and David Reisman, the future author of “The Lonely Crowd,” the classic portrait of social anxiety in 1950s America. Gans received a master’s in sociology from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D., in 1957, from the University of Pennsylvania.He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Teachers College before joining Columbia in 1971 and remaining until 2007. He also worked in local government, as an assistant planner for the Chicago Housing Authority, and at the federal level with the predecessor to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was married twice, most recently to Louise Gruner.

Gans was a highly educated, liberal Democrat whose belief in diversity meant he resisted imposing his tastes, whether upon his neighbors in Levittown or upon his readers. In the 1974 book “Popular Culture and High Culture,” he disputed the idea that so-called elite tastes were superior to those of the masses and criticized scholars who followed “their own standard of the good life.”He wrote, “all people have a right to the culture they prefer, regardless of whether it is high or popular. The book is thus an argument for cultural democracy and an argument against the idea that only the cultural expert knows what is good for people and for society.”

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Nikola Pokrivač, a former Croatia national team midfielder who played at the 2008 European Championship, has died in a car accident, his country’s soccer federation said. He was 39.

The federation announced that Pokrivač died Friday night in a car accident in the city of Karlovac.Annapurna Devi Pandey, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose research has taken her to homes for the abandoned in her native India, says respect for elders remains ingrained in society, but some must make a difficult choice between caring for their children or their parents.

“The sense of duty,” she says, “becomes kind of an existential issue.”The body of a resident named Yadagiri is prepared for cremation in Hyderabad. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The body of a resident named Yadagiri is prepared for cremation in Hyderabad. (AP Photo/David Goldman) (AP Photo/David Goldman)Neatly planted rows of vegetables cut across the Garhmukteshwar property’s midsection, a limp Indian flag comes to life with a breeze and a wall along the perimeter is painted with messages of hope.