American Society: How It Really Works

by Joel Rogers and Erik Olin Wright

Book Overview

In American Society: How It Really Works, Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers ask several key questions: What kind of society is America? How does it really work and why is it the way it is? In what ways does it need changing, and how can those changes be brought about? To answer these questions, Wright and Rogers identify five core social values that most Americans affirm in one way or another: freedom, prosperity, efficiency, fairness, and democracy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393938859
• ISBN13: 9780393938852
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"