Uneasy Street : : The Anxieties of Affluence / / Rachel Sherman.
A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in societyFrom TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "...
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Sherman, Rachel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Uneasy Street : The Anxieties of Affluence / Rachel Sherman. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (328 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. ORIENTATIONS TO OTHERS -- 2. WORKING HARD OR HARDLY WORKING? -- 3. "A VERY EXPENSIVE ORDINARY LIFE " -- 4. "GIVING BACK," AWARENESS, AND IDENTITY -- 5. LABOR, SPENDING, AND ENTITLEMENT IN COUPLES -- 6. PARENTING PRIVILEGE -- CONCLUSION -- METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in societyFrom TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers-including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers-to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing and displaying social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. They wish to be "normal," describing their consumption as reasonable and basic and comparing themselves to those who have more than they do rather than those with less. These New Yorkers also want to see themselves as hard workers who give back and raise children with good values, and they avoid talking about money.Although their experiences differ depending on a range of factors, including whether their wealth was earned or inherited, these elites generally depict themselves as productive and prudent, and therefore morally worthy, while the undeserving rich are lazy, ostentatious, and snobbish. Sherman argues that this ethical distinction between "good" and "bad" wealthy people characterizes American culture more broadly, and that it perpetuates rather than challenges economic inequality.As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the real lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us. 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 30. Aug 2021) Rich people United States. Social classes United States. Social stratification United States. Wealth United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543322 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888504?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400888504 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400888504.jpg |
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