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What we mean by the American dream : stories we tell about meritocracy / Doron Taussig

Taussig, Doron [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Ithaca ; London : ILR press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021

186 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Taussig, Doron : What we mean by the American dream. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5017-5468-5 (hardcover)

978-1-5017-5470-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-5017-5469-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020027292

OCoLC: 1247820054     

MS 1530      Ähnliche Literatur

HN90.S65

306.0973 ; 306.097 3

Basisklassifikation: 71.12 (Soziale Stratifikation; soziale Mobilität)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*American dream ; Meritokratie ; Soziale Mobilität      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social mobility -- United States -- Psychological aspects ; American Dream ; Success -- United States -- Psychological aspects ; United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century ; United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century

American Idols -- Head Starts and Handicaps -- Me, Myself, and I -- Merit without the -ocracy -- What's Deserve Got to Do with It?

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"Do we live in a meritocracy? Many believe we do and that it is an essential element of the American Dream. Others would say we do not. In this book, Doron Taussig examines how people think about the relationship between merit and achievement. The surprise is that our understanding of how life works and what it means to deserve something is more flexible and fluid than our mythology"