Hochschild Facing Up to the American Dream

Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
With a New preface by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2173-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 55, 440 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in American Politics

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Hochschild, Jennifer L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables and Figure

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction 3

Ch. 1 What Is the American Dream? 15

Ch. 2 Rich and Poor African Americans 39

Ch. 3 "What's All the Fuss About?": Blacks' and Whites' Beliefs about the American Dream 55

Ch. 4 "Succeeding More" and "Under the Spell": Affluent and Poor Blacks' Beliefs about the American Dream 72

Ch. 5 Beliefs about One's Own Life 91

Ch. 6 Beliefs about Others 122

Ch. 7 Competitive Success and Collective Well being 141

Ch. 8 Remaining under the Spell 157

Ch. 9 With One Part of Themselves They Actually Believe 174

Ch. 10 Distorting the Dream 184

Ch. 11 Breaking the Spell 200

Ch. 12 The Perversity of Race and the Fluidity of Values 214

Ch. 13 Comparing Blacks and White Immigrants 225

Ch. 14 The Future of the American Dream 250

Appendix A Surveys Used for Unpublished Tabulations 261

Appendix B Supplemental Tables 267

Notes 271

Works Cited 341

Index 399

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer L. Hochschild is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Among her other works are The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation and What's Fair?: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice.