What We Mean by the American Dream : : Stories We Tell about Meritocracy / / Doron Taussig.
Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up, in our working lives, roughly where we deserve to be based on our efforts and abilities—in other words, the United States is supposed...
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Taussig, Doron, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut What We Mean by the American Dream : Stories We Tell about Meritocracy / Doron Taussig. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (200 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 American Idols -- 2 Head Starts and Handicaps -- 3 Me, Myself, and I -- 4 Merit without the -ocracy -- 5 What’s Deserve Got to Do with It? -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Doron Taussig invites us to question the American Dream. Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up, in our working lives, roughly where we deserve to be based on our efforts and abilities—in other words, the United States is supposed to be a meritocracy. When Americans think and talk about our lives, we grapple with this idea, asking how a person got to where he or she is, and whether they earned it. In What We Mean by the American Dream, Taussig tries to find out how we answer that question.Weaving together interviews with Americans from many walks of life—as well as stories told in American media about prominent figures from politics, sports, and business—What We Mean by the American Dream investigates how Americans think about whether an individual deserves an opportunity, job, termination, paycheck, or fortune. Taussig looks into the fabric of American life to witness how various people including dairy farmers, police officers, dancers, handymen, teachers, computer techs, students, store clerks, the unemployed, housewives, and even drug dealers got to where they are today and whether they have earned it or not.Taussig's frank assessment of the state of the American workforce and its dreams allows him to truly and meaningfully ask the question that underpins so many of our political debates and personal frustrations, did you earn it? By doing so, he sheds new light on what we mean by—and how we can deliver on—the American Dream of today. 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 01. Dez 2022) American Dream. Social mobility United States Psychological aspects. Success United States Psychological aspects. Communications. Labor History. Sociology & Social Science. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity. bisacsh success and failure, beliefs about the american dream, societal meritocracy, inequality, measuring success, class. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739084 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2021 English 9783110754186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2021 9783110753967 ZDB-23-DSL print 9781501754685 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501754708?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501754708 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501754708/original |
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