James Mannon

Measuring Up (eBook, PDF)

The Performance Ethic In American Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is an exploration of the problems caused by the relentless pressure many Americans feel to measure up successfully in respect of school grades, beauty, economic achievement, and various quantified aptitudes. The book focuses on various aspects, both major and minor, of social and cultural life, discussing topics such as culture, socialization, peer groups, reference groups, presentations of self, gender roles, class inequality, deindustrialization, corporate downsizing, status systems, and human agency. Having taken his critical look at modern cultural values that support the performance ethic, the author concludes with hope for a reorientation of values that could promote a more productive sense of identity in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429967559
• Artikelnr.: 53353669

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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