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.
很有启发性的一本书,同样的问题中国也在出现
评分2.5星吧,优点是说的都是大实话、有案例而不是干巴巴、最后努力给建议,缺点是忽略了国际国内政经大背景、社会价值观和政经体制缺陷、以及干货太少都是废话
评分普通人翻身讲究生得逢时(national boom),说到底一个人的命运要看历史进程。
评分完全被我当育儿书看,倒数第二章讲解决方案的大部分侧重政府层面,而我期待的是个人层面,哈哈,不怪作者。
评分普通人翻身讲究生得逢时(national boom),说到底一个人的命运要看历史进程。
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 评分美国政治学者罗伯特•帕特南所写《我们的孩子》一书,讲述了一些下层阶级和中上层阶级的孩子成长环境的差异,从而导致长大之后的境遇不同。这些故事都是如此的生动,让你发现,两个美国世界的存在。正如《北京折叠》故事里,上、中、下不同的世界不相往来一般。我记得去过印...
评分最近读完了2本书:拉鲁的《不平等的童年》及Putman’s 《Our Kids》,恰巧讲得是同一个主题:美国教育的阶级差异。两本书都采取了类似的研究方法:通过选取十几个家庭作为样本进行访谈与观察,并对样本家庭父母所处的社会地位(可获得的社会资源)作为分类,总结出了当今美国社...
Our Kids pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025