Measuring Up: The Performance Ethic In American Culture

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Measuring Up explores the relentless pressure many Americans feel to measure up successfully with respect to grades, beauty, economic achievement, and various quantified ?aptitudes.? This unique text focuses both on the macro and micro aspects of social and cultural life, discussing such topics as culture, socialization, peer groups, reference grou

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367316822
ISBN-10: 036731682X
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

The Performance Ethic in American Society -- Measuring Up in the Early Years -- Why Teens Try Harder: Adolescent Life in the United States -- The Measured Self in the Middle Years -- Losers, Weepers: Dilemmas of the Underclass -- Constructing a New Vision: The Emergence of the Productive Self

Notă biografică

James M. Mannon is professor of sociology at DePauw University and the author of American Gridmark.

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This book explores the relentless pressure that many Americans feel to measure up successfully with respect to grades, beauty, economic achievement, and various quantified "aptitudes." It focuses on both the macro and micro aspects of social and cultural life.

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