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.
我觉得最重要的是得让孩子们明白“希望是什么”以及“什么是希望”——翻身的路千万条,但路径终究会收敛到两只手数出来——你是谁的精子,你有谁的精子,你有多少金子
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。
评分西方教育。读过了 不平等的童年 unequal childhood 这本就不读了 读一次心痛一次 因为无法做些什么改变现状 眼睁睁看着孩子继续着自己曾走过的路 原生家庭 阶级 无法逃离的井底之蛙
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。
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作为哈佛大学社会学教授,作者本人在1950年代的俄亥俄州小镇长大,他虽然出身普通,但成为哈佛教授。这除了他本人的努力之外,也离不开宏观的社会支持,当时的美国经济迅速扩张,蓝领和白领的相差并不是特别大,社区凝聚力丰沛,教育与社交并没有在阶级间隔离。大多数人不论出...
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评分美国梦:只要你肯奋斗,就能屌丝逆袭。 《我们的孩子》一书中通过若干案例说明:对于屌丝,美国梦已然破灭。 吴军的《见识》里写到,比你高一个阶层的人拥用更强的资源调动能力,只需付出10%的努力,就相当于你付出100%的努力。龟兔赛跑的故事完全是“贫困者的假设”,现实的社...
评分美国梦:只要你肯奋斗,就能屌丝逆袭。 《我们的孩子》一书中通过若干案例说明:对于屌丝,美国梦已然破灭。 吴军的《见识》里写到,比你高一个阶层的人拥用更强的资源调动能力,只需付出10%的努力,就相当于你付出100%的努力。龟兔赛跑的故事完全是“贫困者的假设”,现实的社...
评分就像跟随作者进入到不同的家庭,观察他们的孩子为什么赢/输在起跑线上;看书的过程中也在回忆自己的成长经历,问问自己有没有过时的片面的甚至宿命的育儿理念,这些理念可能会先于专业知识,影响我的孩子。当父母可能不是最难的,但可能是对知识的鲜度、对理论与实际的结合、对...
Our Kids pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025