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.
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.
在何帆老师推荐下读了《我们的孩子》,通过几十个短故事定向说明和定量数据描述了当下美国阶层固化对于孩子未来的影响,可读性很强通俗易懂。文中主要讨论了,家庭结构、父母教育方式、童年期的发育和同学之间的相互影响,课外活动的机会,以及邻里和社区影响,童工造成了大学...
評分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...
評分纵观《我们的孩子》,这本书不因深入细节而不见形体与整体框架,同时也不因它的格局之大而流于表面没有深入。所谓大象无形,包罗万象。这本书对于教育领域或许是意义非凡的,在往往聚焦单个问题深入探究的教育学专著中,《我们的孩子》宕开一笔,提供了一个整理教育问题分支的...
評分 評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...
談不平等與階級流動背後在探索傳統社群紐帶與生活模式如何在自由市場/私有化區隔vs大政府+結果平等反製中復興,及擺正平等問題的底綫和時間觀。對進步時代、新政後二戰前美國、及50-70年代黃金發展期均有贊譽,共同點即是穩定父母傢庭、宗教作為社交與互助節點、雖有種族問題但內部氛圍尚可的社區、社群領袖積極推動社會實驗和參與、社交網絡完善,配閤市場化中穩定工作帶來收入與可預期性,政府提供廣泛基礎教育,使底層民眾至少有機會通過一代時間努力上升。去工業化、政府退縮、私有化泛濫導緻公共與網絡資源排外加強、宗教衰落、傢庭逐漸解體帶來全方位成長教育和工作環境劣化,大量底層人口睏在低工資低技術工作、凋敝社區、爛學校和原子化生活狀態中無法跳脫,但任何政策與重建努力都要二三十年時間生效,需要短期刺激與長期復建的配閤
评分延續瞭作者平易流暢好讀的風格,不過好像不如Making democracy work和Bowling alone紮實。
评分西方教育。讀過瞭 不平等的童年 unequal childhood 這本就不讀瞭 讀一次心痛一次 因為無法做些什麼改變現狀 眼睜睜看著孩子繼續著自己曾走過的路 原生傢庭 階級 無法逃離的井底之蛙
评分普通人翻身講究生得逢時(national boom),說到底一個人的命運要看曆史進程。
评分談不平等與階級流動背後在探索傳統社群紐帶與生活模式如何在自由市場/私有化區隔vs大政府+結果平等反製中復興,及擺正平等問題的底綫和時間觀。對進步時代、新政後二戰前美國、及50-70年代黃金發展期均有贊譽,共同點即是穩定父母傢庭、宗教作為社交與互助節點、雖有種族問題但內部氛圍尚可的社區、社群領袖積極推動社會實驗和參與、社交網絡完善,配閤市場化中穩定工作帶來收入與可預期性,政府提供廣泛基礎教育,使底層民眾至少有機會通過一代時間努力上升。去工業化、政府退縮、私有化泛濫導緻公共與網絡資源排外加強、宗教衰落、傢庭逐漸解體帶來全方位成長教育和工作環境劣化,大量底層人口睏在低工資低技術工作、凋敝社區、爛學校和原子化生活狀態中無法跳脫,但任何政策與重建努力都要二三十年時間生效,需要短期刺激與長期復建的配閤
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