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Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality

Lawrence M Eppard Mark Robert Rank Heather E Bullock Noam Chomsky Henry A Giroux

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  • 302 sidor
  • 2022
Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality explores and critiques the widespread perception in the United States that ones success or failure in life is largely the result of personal choices and individual characteristics. As the authors show, the distinctively individualist ideology of American politics and culture shapes attitudes toward poverty and economic inequality in profound ways, fostering social policies that de-emphasize structural remedies. Drawing on a variety of unique methodologies, the book synthesizes data from large-scale surveys of the American population, and it features both conversations with academic experts and interviews with American citizens intimately familiar with the consequences of economic disadvantage. This mixture of approaches gives readers a fuller understanding of skeptical altruism, a concept the authors use to describe the American publics hesitancy to adopt a more robust and structurally-oriented approach to solving the persistent problem of economic disadvantage.
  • Författare: Lawrence M Eppard, Mark Robert Rank, Heather E Bullock, Noam Chomsky, Henry A Giroux
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781611462364
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 302
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-03-04
  • Förlag: Lehigh University Press