American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability /

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How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may sti...

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Autor principal: Wuthnow, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Middle class.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Classes moyennes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Middle class > United States > History.
Middle class > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. A Relational Approach: The Social Construction of Respect and Respectability
  • CHAPTER 2. Worked as a Huckster: Moral Connotations of Placeless Labor
  • CHAPTER 3. An Incurable Lunatic: Pension Politics in the Struggle for Respectability
  • CHAPTER 4. Not a Fanatic: Zeal in the Cause of Zion
  • CHAPTER 5. Dying Young: Immigrant Congregations as Moral Communities
  • CHAPTER 6. Excessive Profits: Wealth, Morality, and the Common People
  • CHAPTER 7. Naughty Children: Moral Instruction by Negative Example
  • CHAPTER 8. Othering: Cultural Diversity and Symbolic Boundaries
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.

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