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    American misfits and the making of middle-class respectability (2018)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press | Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9781400888092
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations (black and white)
    DDC: 305.50973
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    MS 1235
    Keywords: Mittelstand ; Social stratification History ; Social ethics History ; Group identity History ; USA ; United States Social conditions
    Abstract: The quest for middle-class respectability in 19th-century America is usually described as a process of inculcating positive values such as honesty, hard work, independence, and cultural refinement. But clergy, educators, and community leaders also defined respectability negatively, by maligning individuals and groups - 'misfits' - who deviated from accepted norms. Robert Wuthnow argues that respectability is constructed by 'othering' people who do not fit into easily recognisable, socially approved categories. He demonstrates this through an in-depth examination of a wide variety of individuals and groups that became objects of derision.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2017 , Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691176864.001.0001
    URL: https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691176864.001.0001
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    American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability (2017)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 9781400888092
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource , 24 halftones
    DDC: 305.5/50973
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Middle class History ; Middle class History ; Mittelstand ; USA ; USA ; Mittelstand ; Geschichte
    Abstract: How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may still apply?The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century America is usually described as a process of inculcating positive values such as honesty, hard work, independence, and cultural refinement. But clergy, educators, and community leaders also defined respectability negatively, by maligning individuals and groups—"misfits"—who deviated from accepted norms.Robert Wuthnow argues that respectability is constructed by "othering" people who do not fit into easily recognizable, socially approved categories. He demonstrates this through an in-depth examination of a wide variety of individuals and groups that became objects of derision. We meet a disabled Civil War veteran who worked as a huckster on the edges of the frontier, the wife of a lunatic who raised her family while her husband was institutionalized, an immigrant religious community accused of sedition, and a wealthy scion charged with profiteering.Unlike respected Americans who marched confidently toward worldly and heavenly success, such misfits were usually ignored in paeans about the nation. But they played an important part in the cultural work that made America, and their story is essential for understanding the "othering" that remains so much a part of American culture and politics today
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018) , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400888092
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400888092
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    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9781400888092
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    Be very afraid : the cultural response to terror, pandemics, environmental devastation, nuclear annihilation, and other threats (2010)
    New York : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780199777389 , 0199777381
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 294 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Wuthnow, Robert, 1946 - Be very afraid
    DDC: 303.4'85
    RVK:
    MD 6200
    Keywords: Emergency management ; Threats ; Bedrohungsvorstellung ; Innere Sicherheit ; Sicherheitspolitik ; Politische Bewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; USA
    Abstract: Here, Wuthnow examines the human response to existential threats. Freud, he notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow writes, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something even if it's wasteful and time-consuming.
    DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730872.001.0001
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730872.001.0001
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    Poor Richard's principle : recovering the American dream through the moral dimension of work, business, and money (1996)
    Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 1400813921 , 9781400813926 , 9781400822201 , 1400822203
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 429 pages)
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Beem, Christopher Poor Richard's Principle: Recovering the American Dream Through the Moral Dimension of Work, Business, and Money. Robert Wuthnow 1999
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Work Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; Money Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; Business ethics United States ; Social values United States ; Work and family United States ; Travail Aspect moral ; États-Unis ; Monnaie Aspect moral ; États-Unis ; Morale des affaires États-Unis ; Valeurs sociales États-Unis ; Travail et famille États-Unis ; Business ethics ; Money Moral and ethical aspects ; Social values ; Work Moral and ethical aspects ; Business ethics ; Money ; Moral and ethical aspects ; Social values ; Work ; Moral and ethical aspects ; United States ; United States Moral conditions ; États-Unis Conditions morales ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow - not because of economic conditions, but because its moral underpinnings have been forgotten. In the past this vision was not simply a formula for success, but a moral perspective that framed our thinking about work and money in terms of broader commitments to family, community, and humanitarian values. Nowadays, we are working harder than ever, and yet many of us feel that we are not realizing our higher aspirations as individuals or as a people. Here Wuthnow examines the struggles in which American families are now engaged as they try to balance work and family, confront the pressures of consumerism, and find meaning in their careers. He suggests that we can find economic instruction and inspiration in the nation's past - in such figures as Benjamin Franklin, for instance, who was at once the prudent Poor Richard, the engaged public person, and the enthusiastic lover of life
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-426) and index. - Print version record
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    The restructuring of American religion : society and faith since World War II (1988)
    Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 9780691224213 , 0691224218
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 374 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in church and state
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wuthnow, Robert The Restructuring of American Religion
    DDC: 306/.6/0973
    RVK:
    BB 1840
    RVK:
    BO 6935
    RVK:
    MG 70270
    Keywords: University of South Alabama ; Church and state ; Church and state ; Religion ; Gesellschaft ; Religion ; Kerk en maatschappij ; United States Religion 1945- ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Foreword --Preface --CHAPTER 1:Thequestion of restructuring --CHAPTER 2:Heritage and vision --CHAPTER 3:Avision of promise and peril --CHAPTER 4:Conscience and conviction in public life --CHAPTER 5:Thedeclining significance of denominationalism --CHAPTER 6:Thegrowth of special purpose groups --CHAPTER 7:Thegreat divide: toward religious realignment --CHAPTER 8:Mobilization on the right --CHAPTER 9:Fueling the tensions --CHAPTER 10:Civil religion: two cheers for America --CHAPTER 11:From civil religion to technological legitimacy --CHAPTER 12:Abroader context: politics and faith --Notes --Selected bibliography --Index.
    Abstract: A study of developments in modern American religion examines the interaction between religion and politics that has occurred in the years since World War II, the polarization of religious dogma and the rise of special interest groups
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-368) and index
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