The lonely quest : constructing the self in the twenty-first century United States /
"Today the United States is a country divided along lines of gender, economic inequality, educational level, and political affiliation. Democrats typically select a different range of matters of serious public concern compared to Republicans. Many Americans describe difficulty in coming to term...
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments.
- 1. Exploring mankind's past : social character under tribalism, feudalism, and early industrialism
- 2. Documenting the divide : social division in the twenty-first century United States
- 3. Social self : early and mid-twentieth century American sociological theories
- 4. Formation of the self under the conditions of globalized capitalism
- 5. Self identity in field studies in twenty-first century American class settings : implications for modernist theories
- 6. Life projects in the twenty-first century United States : rising inequality, global capitalism, neo-liberal government, and the Great Recession
- 7. Conclusion: Individualism and meritocracy : prospects for constructing self identity under the conditions of twenty-first century modernity
- Index.