The Resource Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray
Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray
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The item Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- This critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass. In this book the author explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. The book demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship, a divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad. The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, the author argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. This divergence puts the success of the American project at risk
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- viii, 407 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue : November 21, 1963
- pt. 1. The formation of a new upper class
- Our kind of people
- The foundations of the new upper class
- A new kind of segregation
- How thick is your bubble?
- The bright side of the new upper class
- pt. 2. The formation of a new lower class
- The founding virtues
- Belmont and Fishtown
- Marriage
- Industriousness
- Honesty
- Religiosity
- The real Fishtown
- The size of the new lower class
- pt. 3. Why it matters
- The selective collapse of American community
- The founding virtues and the stuff of life
- One nation, divisible
- Alternative futures
- Appendix A : Data sources and presentation
- Appendix B : Supplemental material for the segregation chapter
- Appendix C : Supplemental material for the chapter on Belmont and Fishtown
- Appendix D : Supplemental material for the marriage chapter
- Appendix E : Supplemental material for the honesty chapter
- Appendix F : Supplemental material for the American community chapter
- Appendix G : Supplemental material for the chapter about the founding virtues and the stuff of life
- Isbn
- 9780307453426
- Label
- Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010
- Title
- Coming apart
- Title remainder
- the state of white America, 1960-2010
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Murray
- Subject
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- Isolation
- Since 1945
- Social classes
- Social classes -- United States
- Social classes -- United States
- Social conditions
- Social mobility
- Social mobility -- United States
- Soziale Klasse
- Soziale Mobilität
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- Economic history
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- Weiße
- Whites -- Economic conditions
- Whites -- Social conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Social conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Economic conditions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This critique of the white American class structure argues that the paths of social mobility that once advanced the nation are now serving to further isolate an elite upper class while enforcing a growing and resentful white underclass. In this book the author explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity. The book demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship, a divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad. The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, the author argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. This divergence puts the success of the American project at risk
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murray, Charles A
- Dewey number
- 305.8/00973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E184.A1
- LC item number
- M895 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- Whites
- Whites
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Social classes
- Social mobility
- Whites
- Whites
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Social classes
- Social mobility
- Economic history
- Social classes
- Social conditions
- Social mobility
- Whites
- Whites
- United States
- Weiße
- Soziale Mobilität
- Soziale Klasse
- Isolation
- Whites
- Whites
- United States
- United States
- Social classes
- Label
- Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : November 21, 1963 -- pt. 1. The formation of a new upper class -- Our kind of people -- The foundations of the new upper class -- A new kind of segregation -- How thick is your bubble? -- The bright side of the new upper class -- pt. 2. The formation of a new lower class -- The founding virtues -- Belmont and Fishtown -- Marriage -- Industriousness -- Honesty -- Religiosity -- The real Fishtown -- The size of the new lower class -- pt. 3. Why it matters -- The selective collapse of American community -- The founding virtues and the stuff of life -- One nation, divisible -- Alternative futures -- Appendix A : Data sources and presentation -- Appendix B : Supplemental material for the segregation chapter -- Appendix C : Supplemental material for the chapter on Belmont and Fishtown -- Appendix D : Supplemental material for the marriage chapter -- Appendix E : Supplemental material for the honesty chapter -- Appendix F : Supplemental material for the American community chapter -- Appendix G : Supplemental material for the chapter about the founding virtues and the stuff of life
- Control code
- ocn727702914
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- viii, 407 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307453426
- Lccn
- 2011501987
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780307453426
- (OCoLC)727702914
- Label
- Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue : November 21, 1963 -- pt. 1. The formation of a new upper class -- Our kind of people -- The foundations of the new upper class -- A new kind of segregation -- How thick is your bubble? -- The bright side of the new upper class -- pt. 2. The formation of a new lower class -- The founding virtues -- Belmont and Fishtown -- Marriage -- Industriousness -- Honesty -- Religiosity -- The real Fishtown -- The size of the new lower class -- pt. 3. Why it matters -- The selective collapse of American community -- The founding virtues and the stuff of life -- One nation, divisible -- Alternative futures -- Appendix A : Data sources and presentation -- Appendix B : Supplemental material for the segregation chapter -- Appendix C : Supplemental material for the chapter on Belmont and Fishtown -- Appendix D : Supplemental material for the marriage chapter -- Appendix E : Supplemental material for the honesty chapter -- Appendix F : Supplemental material for the American community chapter -- Appendix G : Supplemental material for the chapter about the founding virtues and the stuff of life
- Control code
- ocn727702914
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- viii, 407 pages
- Isbn
- 9780307453426
- Lccn
- 2011501987
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780307453426
- (OCoLC)727702914
Subject
- Isolation
- Since 1945
- Social classes
- Social classes -- United States
- Social classes -- United States
- Social conditions
- Social mobility
- Social mobility -- United States
- Soziale Klasse
- Soziale Mobilität
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- Economic history
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- Weiße
- Whites -- Economic conditions
- Whites -- Social conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Social conditions
- Whites -- United States -- Social conditions
- United States -- Economic conditions
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