American Mythos : Why Our Best Efforts to Be a Better Nation Fall Short /

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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wuthnow, Robert
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social values.
Social ethics.
Moral conditions.
Immigrants.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis.
Immigrants > United States.
Social ethics > United States.
Social values > United States.
United States.
United States > Moral conditions.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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