America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring - Softcover

Perrucci, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742563707 ISBN 13: 9780742563704

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

Synopsis

In America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring, Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci identify the broad economic and technological changes that have led to the loss of high wage jobs, declining opportunity, and increased income and wealth inequality. These changes have altered the way that Americans think about themselves, their future, and the lives of their children and neighbors. Focusing on the erosion of trust, hope, and caring between and among Americans and their social institutions, the authors confront the challenge by proposing policies that will build hope (through jobs and wages) in order to promote greater trust of institutions and more caring for the less fortunate.

Examining data from the past thirty-year period, Perrucci and Perrucci apply a critical sociological lens to view the dominant economic, political, and cultural institutions that have shaped the main social problems facing Americans. They challenge Americans to act on behalf of their individual and collective interests by becoming informed and involved in developing new solutions to improve their lives.

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About the Author

Robert Perrucci is professor of sociology at Purdue University, a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and former editor of the American Sociologist, Social Problems, and Contemporary Sociology. Together they are the authors of the award-winning book The New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742563707
• ISBN 13: 9780742563704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174