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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| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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