图书标签: 社会学 美国 社会阶层结构 教育 儿童教育 政治学 美国政治 社会
发表于2025-03-17
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A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. But during the last twenty-five years we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. Americans have always believed in equality of opportunity, the idea that all kids, regardless of their family background, should have a decent chance to improve their lot in life. Now, this central tenet of the American dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was.
Robert Putnam—about whom The Economist said, “his scholarship is wide-ranging, his intelligence luminous, his tone modest, his prose unpretentious and frequently funny”—offers a personal but also authoritative look at this new American crisis. Putnam begins with his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. By and large the vast majority of those students—“our kids”—went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have had harder lives amid diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, drawing on a formidable body of research done especially for this book.
Our Kids is a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence. Putnam provides a disturbing account of the American dream that should initiate a deep examination of the future of our country.
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Nationally honored as a leading humanist and a renowned scientist, he has written fourteen books and has consulted for the last four US Presidents. His research program, the Saguaro Seminar, is dedicated to fostering civic engagement in America.
延续了作者平易流畅好读的风格,不过好像不如Making democracy work和Bowling alone扎实。
评分清晰,清醒,亲切,有力。教育机会的缺失背后是社会流动性的(可能不可逆转的)丧失。怎么让别人家的孩子重新变成“我们的孩子”,这是帕特南的天问。
评分pas mal.
评分So kids from affluent, educated homes get the best of both worlds—more monetary investment (because their parents can afford it) and more time investment (because their two parents are able to make it a priority)—whereas kids from lower-class homes get the worst of both worlds.
评分很有启发
Intro 大概是去年的六月,正是考研人正式进入备考状态的时期,我向波波谈起了对社会阶层的思考与抱怨,那时(当然现在也是)我常常陷入一种怨天尤人的状态里,急需来自长辈的开导,虽然她连自己的事情都忙不完,但还是会发给我长长的语音转文字的回答,让人心生温暖。就是这时...
评分全书对美国现在社会分层固化的几个主要方面进行讨论:家庭结构、家庭教育、学校教育、社区环境。总结了这些方面的社会科学研究的结果,然后针对每一个专题专门采访了正面负面各一个家庭做例子,并以这些家庭的故事开头,给枯燥的统计数字带来些直观的感受。总的结论很简单,就...
评分 评分Intro 大概是去年的六月,正是考研人正式进入备考状态的时期,我向波波谈起了对社会阶层的思考与抱怨,那时(当然现在也是)我常常陷入一种怨天尤人的状态里,急需来自长辈的开导,虽然她连自己的事情都忙不完,但还是会发给我长长的语音转文字的回答,让人心生温暖。就是这时...
评分Intro 大概是去年的六月,正是考研人正式进入备考状态的时期,我向波波谈起了对社会阶层的思考与抱怨,那时(当然现在也是)我常常陷入一种怨天尤人的状态里,急需来自长辈的开导,虽然她连自己的事情都忙不完,但还是会发给我长长的语音转文字的回答,让人心生温暖。就是这时...
Our Kids pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025