Joel Best American Nightmares (Paperback)
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Further Details Title: American Nightmares Condition: New EAN: 9780520296350 ISBN: 9780520296350 Publisher: University of California Press Format: Paperback Release Date: 01/23/2018 Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 140mm Item Width: 18mm Item Weight: 318g Author: Joel Best Language: English Subtitle: Social Problems in an Anxious World ISBN-10: 0520296354 Description: In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream-to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement-recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting-or are on the verge of getting-worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes-still the largest chunk of most people's net worth-may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation.By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems-and our anxiety about them-are socially constructed. Country/Region of Manufacture: US Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences Release Year: 2018 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
