Chasing the American Dream - Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes

Uses interviews with dozens of Americans and a longitudinal study covering forty years of income data to describe the American Dream and what it means to the country.

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

Summary

In this book the authors show that the risk of economic vulnerability has been increasing substantially over the past four decades, and argue that while not unattainable, the American Dream - as we currently define it - is becoming harder to reach and harder still to keep.

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: and with Kirk A. Foster, Kirk A. Foster, Thomas A. Hirschl, with Thomas A. Hirschl, Mark Robert Rank, Mark Robert (Professor Rank, Mark Robert Hirschl Rank
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2014
• EAN: 9780195377910
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537791-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work