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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Wuthnow |
| ISBN: | 0691028923 9780691028927 0691058954 9780691058955 |
| OCLC Number: | 34281942 |
| Description: | xii, 429 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Question of Moral Restraint -- Ch. 1. Having It All -- and Wanting More: The Social Symptoms of Cultural Distress -- Ch. 2. Making Choices: From Short-Term Adjustments to Principled Lives -- Ch. 3. Moral Tradition: The Lost Ambivalence in American Culture -- Ch. 4. Shifting Perspectives: The Decoupling of Work and Money -- Ch. 5. Accounts: The Changing Meanings of White-Collar Work -- Ch. 6. (Not) Talking about Money: The Social Sources and Personal Consequences of Subjectivization -- Ch. 7. Getting and Spending: The Maintenance and Violation of Symbolic Boundaries -- Ch. 8. The Working Class: Changing Conditions and Converging Perspectives -- Ch. 9. Family LIfe: The New Challenges of Balancing Multiple Commitments -- Ch. 10. Rediscovering Community: The Cultural Potential of Caring Behavior and Voluntary Service -- Ch. 11. The Quest for Spirituality: Ambiguous Voices from America's Religious Communities. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Wuthnow. |
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Through dozens of citizens who talked with him, Wuthnow records the continuing stresses in modern economic life... [The] model of an ideal life, Wuthnow maintains, evolved before the Civil War into two schools of social thought, which he calls 'ascetic' and 'expressive' moralism... Wuthnow's impressive body of polls and interviews convinces us that both of these modern traditions remain powerful influences in American life today. -- Richard Parker The New York Times Book Review In this sociological tract for our times, Wuthnow reconsiders the nature and meaning of the American dream in the late twentieth century. This book goes much further than merely recounting the manifold failings of American economics and culture in the pursuit of happiness... Wuthnow perceives a moral vacuum at the core of American society, and recommends that Americans systematically revisit the cultural imperatives of an earlier age to reinvent the paradigm of personal success in late capitalism. An important and timely work. The Virginia Quarterly Review Read more...
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