American mythos : why our best efforts to be a better nation fall short /

Show other versions (2)

America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic. In this new book, renowned sociologist Robert Wuthnow examines these most American of stories--narratives about individualism, immig...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wuthnow, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Social values > United States.
Social ethics > United States.
Immigrants > United States.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Immigrants
Moral conditions
Social ethics
Social values
United States > Moral conditions.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Deep culture and democratic renewal
  • Quandaries of individualism
  • The justice of privilege
  • Self-made men and women
  • In America, all religions are true
  • Ethnic ties that bind (loosely)
  • Saving ourselves from materialism
  • Venues for reflective democracy.

Similar Items