American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability

by Robert Wuthnow

Book Overview

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade

How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may still apply?

The quest for middle-class respectability in nineteenth-century America is usually described as a process of inculcating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691176868
• ISBN13: 9780691176864
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"