American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability / / Robert Wuthnow.
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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Wuthnow, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability / Robert Wuthnow. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (352 p.) : 24 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 still apply?The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century America is usually described as a process of inculcating positive values such as honesty, hard work, independence, and cultural refinement. But clergy, educators, and community leaders also defined respectability negatively, by maligning individuals and groups-"misfits"-who deviated from accepted norms.Robert Wuthnow argues that respectability is constructed by "othering" people who do not fit into easily recognizable, socially approved categories. He demonstrates this through an in-depth examination of a wide variety of individuals and groups that became objects of derision. We meet a disabled Civil War veteran who worked as a huckster on the edges of the frontier, the wife of a lunatic who raised her family while her husband was institutionalized, an immigrant religious community accused of sedition, and a wealthy scion charged with profiteering.Unlike respected Americans who marched confidently toward worldly and heavenly success, such misfits were usually ignored in paeans about the nation. But they played an important part in the cultural work that made America, and their story is essential for understanding the "othering" that remains so much a part of American culture and politics today. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Group identity United States History. Middle class History. Middle class United States History. Social ethics United States History. Social stratification United States History. RELIGION / Comparative Religion. bisacsh American Dream. American culture. American middle class. American politics. American religion. childen's literature. congregations. emotion. emotional displays. hucksters. immigrants. immigration. insane. insanity. mentally ill. middle class respectability. middle class. misfits. naughty children. negative examples. nineteenth century. nineteenth-century America. othering. peddlers. profiteering. profiteers. religion. respect. respectability. social interaction. social life. zealotry. zealots. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543322 print 9780691176864 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888092?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400888092 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400888092.jpg |
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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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