Erik Olin Wright

American Society: How It Really Works

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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. The authors then challenge readers to question to what degree contemporary American society actually lives up to these values and suggest how we might make progress in solving some of the social p… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Rogers, Joel

ISBN: 978-0-393-93885-2
EAN: 9780393938852
Produktnummer: 16703722
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 592 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.5 cm x D3.3 cm 816 g
Auflage: 2. A.
Gewicht: 816

Über den Autor

Erik Olin Wright is arguably the most prominent scholar analyzing the social impact of class in the United States, and his research has mainly involved large-scale quantitative investigations of various themes connected to social inequality. Wright is the author of many books, including Class Counts, Interrogating Inequality, and Classes. He has also organized what he calls the Real Utopias Project, which explores a wide range of radical proposals for transforming the core institutions of contemporary society (and is also a series of books for Verso). In addition, he founded the A.E. Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin, whose mission is to foster dialogue between activists and academics and to encourage critical perspectives on contemporary social issues.