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American Misfits and the Making of Middle-class Respectability Paperback - 2020
by Wuthnow, Robert
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- Paperback
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- Title American Misfits and the Making of Middle-class Respectability
- Author Wuthnow, Robert
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton Univ Pr
- Date 2020
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0691210713
- ISBN 9780691210711 / 0691210713
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 6.5 x 0.9 in (23.88 x 16.51 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.550
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"American Misfits is filled with colorful anecdotes, lively characters, and sharp social analysis. One of America's leading sociologists, Robert Wuthnow shows that respectability is rarely about respecting others but rather about identifying others to malign for their deficiencies and offenses."--Leigh Eric Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis
"This is an outstanding book--impressively researched, boldly argued with interdisciplinary breadth, and innovative in the way it depicts the middle-class American dream as perpetually fleeting and tenuous, marked off by day-to-day practices of the rank-and-file and prone to negotiation among those who seek to patrol the boundaries of belonging. It is also a riveting read, driven by rich description and detailed investigation of countless colorful characters who have tested those boundaries and found themselves held up as test cases of what America should and shouldn't look like, and who should and shouldn't be counted as respectable citizens."--Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame