American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability - Robert Wuthnow - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691176864 - August 15, 2017
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American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability

Robert Wuthnow

American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may still apply? The quest for middle-class respectability


352 pages, 24 halftones.

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Released August 15, 2017
ISBN13 9780691176864
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 352
Dimensions 164 × 245 × 29 mm   ·   638 g
Language English  

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