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发表于2025-05-11
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Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn’t, and why.
Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America’s most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent—what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it—that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the "right stuff" that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents.
Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Pedigree exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best and the brightest, and shows how social status plays a significant role in determining who reaches the top of the economic ladder.
Lauren A. Rivera is associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
早知道有译本我就不花两天读了噻
评分Lauren Rivera herself was an elite student who got bachelor degree in Yale and master & PhD degree in Harvard. This book revealed a lot of facts about EPS firms' recruiting and selecting process. However, it does not dig out deeply the reason behind those facts. The writing is a bit lengthy and jumbled.
评分听了Rivera来法学院panel之后买了, 真是一本神书剖析美国职场的种种implicit biases, 太后悔没有早在EIW之前看到...
评分完整的社会学研究专著,刚好结合了我的三个兴趣点 Social research,Class,Recruiting????
评分感觉是纯发议论啊,举的例子没太大说服力,而且明显是蹦着早已定下的主题去的;好多列举的数据也没有出处,你说什么就是什么吧。其实对于pedigree英国人已经开始动摇了,美国人还不愿意承认,而我大天朝早就认识到了,从高考是不是寒门唯一的出路到各种二代就能看出来。没啥科学性,弃了。
从看理想电台听到关于这本书的一些介绍,再加上一些现实感受,对教育与社会阶层问题产生了极大的兴趣,想要一探究竟。前面的写作原因,调查方法,论证过程,结论,附录,参考文献……让人感觉回到了埋头苦写论文的时期。但这本书通俗易懂,没有掉书袋的感觉和明显的文化隔阂感...
评分在美国能进入一流投资银行、管理咨询公司、律师事务所这类公司的人就是精英阶层,收入是全美家庭的前10%,薪水是从事其他工作毕业生的2-4倍。 虽然在理论上所有人都可以参加竞争,但实际上,仍然只有少数表现出与特权身份有关的高地位符号的人才能进入这些利润丰厚、令人艳羡的...
评分大多数美国人认为努力工作,而不是高贵的血统,是成功的关键。教科书、报纸、小说中充斥着霍雷肖·阿尔杰(Horatio Alger)笔下的故事,即个人凭借强大的动力和坚韧最终跻身上流社会。这些故事,无论聚焦于沃伦·巴菲特(Warren Buffett)的传奇经历,还是《风雨哈佛路》(Home...
评分从看理想电台听到关于这本书的一些介绍,再加上一些现实感受,对教育与社会阶层问题产生了极大的兴趣,想要一探究竟。前面的写作原因,调查方法,论证过程,结论,附录,参考文献……让人感觉回到了埋头苦写论文的时期。但这本书通俗易懂,没有掉书袋的感觉和明显的文化隔阂感...
评分Pedigree pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025