American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability

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Robert Wuthnow

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How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How 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 respectabil

Author Biography:

Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger ’52 Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. He is the author of many works about American culture and society, including Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America’s Heartland and Rough Country: How Texas Became America’s Most Powerful Bible-Belt State (both Princeton).

Release date NZ

August 4th, 2020

Author

Robert Wuthnow

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

24 halftones.

Pages

352

ISBN-13

9780691210711

Product ID

33260711

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