Bridging the Divide (eBook)

Working-Class Culture in a Middle-Class Society

Jack Metzgar (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
240 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6032-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In Bridging the Divide, Jack Metzgar attempts to determine the differences between working-class and middle-class cultures in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of multidisciplinary sources, Metzgar writes as a now middle-class professional with a working-class upbringing, explaining the various ways the two cultures conflict and complement each other, illustrated by his own lived experiences.Set in a historical framework that reflects on how both class cultures developed, adapted, and survived through decades of historical circumstances, Metzgar challenges professional middle-class views of both the working-class and themselves. In the end, he argues for the creation of a cross-class coalition of what he calls "e;standard-issue professionals"e; with both hard-living and settled-living working people and outlines some policies that could help promote such a unification if the two groups had a better understanding of their differences and how to use those differences to their advantage. Bridging the Divide mixes personal stories and theoretical concepts to give us a compelling look inside the current complex position of the working-class in American culture and a view of what it could be in the future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 1 chart
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: the culture of the professional middle class, the rise of professional-middle-class labor, nostalgia and golden-age thinking, working-class realism, Social Class differences
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-6032-7 / 1501760327
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-6032-7 / 9781501760327