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.
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.
评分不平等问题 美国的另一面,也是中国的另一面
评分角度、研究方法、结论、写法都给跪。推荐。
评分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
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...
评分 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...
评分“你的过去并非我的过去,你的现在甚至也不是我的现在。” 最近有幸关注到这本书,读起来有一种亲切之感,甚至有一瞬间的恍惚,我以为书中说的是中国的事情。实在是太相似了。美国目前的教育现状就是不就是我们面临的现状。书中选取了美国不同地点的父子或母女进行采访。由于选...
评分Our Kids pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025