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What We Mean by the American Dream - Doron Taussig

What We Mean by the American Dream

Stories We Tell about Meritocracy

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Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2021
Ilr Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5468-5 (ISBN)
CHF 36,65 inkl. MwSt
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 roughly where we deserve to be in our working lives 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 he or she earned it. In What We Mean by the American Dream, Taussig tries to find out how we answer those questions.


Weaving together interviews with Americans from many walks of life—as well as stories told in the US media about prominent figures from politics, sports, and business—What We Mean by the American Dream investigates how we think about whether an individual deserves an opportunity, job, termination, paycheck, or fortune. Taussig looks into the fabric of American life to explore how various people, including dairy farmers, police officers, dancers, teachers, computer technicians, students, store clerks, the unemployed, homemakers, and even drug dealers got to where they are today and whether they earned it or not.


Taussig's frank assessment of the state of the US 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.

Doron Taussig is Visiting Assistant Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College, prior to which he was a journalist for ten years. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and three children. Follow him on X @dorontaussig.

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?

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 1-5017-5468-8 / 1501754688
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-5468-5 / 9781501754685
Zustand Neuware
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