Uneasy Street (eBook)

The Anxieties of Affluence

Rachel Sherman (Autor)

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2019
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19516-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Rachel Sherman teaches sociology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels.

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A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV's "e;real housewives"e; 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 "e;easy street"e;? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers-from hedge fund financiers and artists to stay-at-home mothers-to examine their lifestyle choices and understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing 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. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2019
• Zusatzinfo: No illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Advertising • African Americans • Allusion • Ambivalence • awareness • Babysitting • behalf • Career • child care • Clothing • community service • Competition • Concierge • conspicuous consumption • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • Cultural Capital • debt • disadvantage • Domestic worker • Economic Inequality • Economics • egalitarianism • Employment • entitlement • Entrepreneurship • Eric Klinenberg • Euphemism • Expense • Finance • Furniture • grandparent • grocery store • handbag • His Family • Household • Household income • Housewife • income • income distribution • Institution • Interior design • Interview • Juliet Schor • laundry • Legitimation • lifestyle management • Luxury Goods • Meritocracy • middle class • Money Management • My Child • narrative • nest egg • Net Worth • New York University • Nonprofit Organization • Norm (social) • Obligation • organization • parenting • percentage • Personal Assistant • Personhood • philanthropy • Politician • popular culture • Private School • Public knowledge • Puritans • Real estate appraisal • real estate broker • Relative Deprivation • Renovation • Reproductive labor • Respondent • Retirement • safety net • salary • saving • Self-Sufficiency • Service Provider • sibling • Snob • Social Class • Social Inequality • Social reproduction • Society • spendthrift • spouse • Tax • The Other Hand • Trade-off • unpaid work • Upper Class • Volunteering • Wealth • Work Ethic • Working Class • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19516-1 / 0691195161
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19516-2 / 9780691195162