Lurching Toward Happiness in America (Boston Review Books) - Hardcover

Fischer, Claude S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262028247 ISBN 13: 9780262028240

Verlag: MIT Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America.

The promise of America has long been conceived as the promise of happiness. Being American is all about the opportunity to pursue one's own bliss. But what is the good life, and are we getting closer to its attainment? In the cacophony of competing conceptions of the good, technological interventions that claim to help us achieve it, and rancorous debate over government's role in securing it for us, every step toward happiness seems to come with at least one step back.

In Lurching toward Happiness in America, acclaimed sociologist Claude Fischer explores the data, the myths, and history to understand how far America has come in delivering on its promise. Are Americans getting lonelier? Is the gender revolution over? Does income shape the way Americans see their life prospects? In the end, Fischer paints a broad picture of what Americans say they want. And, as he considers how close they are to achieving that goal, he also suggests what might finally get them there.

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Claude Fischer is Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, and, most recently, Still Connected: Family and Friends in America Since 1970.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262028247
• ISBN 13: 9780262028240
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 129
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