Elsewhere, U.S.A.
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to theHome Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Published on 13. January 2009
240 pages
978-0-307-37797-5 (ISBN)
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Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. In Elsewhere, U.S.A., acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley connects our day-to-day experiences with occasionally overlooked sociological changes, from women's increasing participation in the labor force to rising economic inequality among successful professionals. In doing so, he provides us with an X-ray view of our new social reality.
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Dalton Conley is University Professor and Dean for the Social Sciences at New York University. He also teaches at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service, as an Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and Slate, among other publications. His previous books include Honky; Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America; and The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why. Conley lives in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A TALE OF THREE GENERATIONS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - From the Protestant Ethic to the Elsewhere Ethic
- Chapter 2 - And You May Find Yourself Behind the Wheel of a Large Automobile
- Chapter 3 - One Plus a Hundred Zeros
- Chapter 4 - Convestment
- Chapter 5 - Shoot the Moon
- Chapter 6 - From Elsewhere to Nowhere
- Chapter 7 - Polymorphous Perversity
- Chapter 8 - The Birth of the Intravidual
- Chapter 9 - Conclusion
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Copyright
