Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes - Hardcover

Rank PhD, Mark Robert; Hirschl PhD, With Thomas A.; Foster PhD, And With Kirk A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195377915 ISBN 13: 9780195377910

Publisher: OUP USA, 2014

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Review:

inspiring read. (Angelia Wilson, Times Higher Education)

Chasing the American Dream is accessible to those who do not have a sociology background. It is also relatively free of academic jargon, easy to read, and provides a wide variety of evidence. Moreover, the text offers a wide range of interesting and useful policy suggestions ... Overall, this book is quite compelling and is useful for cultural studies scholars as a context for understanding how the rhetorical concept of "The American Dream" has stayed relatively static-and immensely powerful-amidst ever-changing social and economic conditions. (Patrick Kent Russell, Journal of American Culture)

A necessary and captivating account of the status of the American Dream that will be of considerable interest to all those who aim to achieve their own definition of it and to all those with an interest in the United States of America. (Benjamin Harvey Sporle, U.S Studies Online)

About the Author:

MRR: PhD, Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social WelfareWashington University in St. Louis TAH: PhD, Professor of Development Sociology, Director, Cornell Population and Development ProgramCornell University KAF: PhD, Professor, College of Social Work; University of South Carolina

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0195377915
• ISBN 13: 9780195377910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232