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.
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评分描述和解释美国收入差距拉大的又一本书。是的,美国梦已经不再,阶级固化的力量在美国越来越严重。比较令人震惊的一点是不同阶层之间的差别在三岁就已经差不多定型,最大的影响因子是父母的教养,父母是否愿意付出时间精力教育和爱护孩子极大地影响了这个孩子的认知、学习和社交能力。
评分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The American dream has been betrayed. While the US opportunity gap is widening by the change of modern family structure and the inequality in parenting, neighborhoods segregation and school choosing, everyone could be the killer or saver to American democracy.
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评分Our Kids pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025