Measuring Up : The Performance Ethic In American Culture

Name: Measuring Up
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
SKU: 9780813332970
Price: 7900 KES
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ISBN: 9780813332970

by James Mannon

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0813332974

ISBN-13 9780813332970

Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc

Imprint Westview Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 1st, 1997

Print length 176 Pages

Product Classification: Cultural studies Cultural studies Sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Social, group or collective psychology

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This book explores the relentless pressure that many Americans feel to measure up successfully with respect to grades, beauty, economic achievement, and various quantified "aptitudes." It focuses on both the macro and micro aspects of social and cultural life.

Measuring Up explores the relentless pressure many Americans feel to measure up successfully with respect to grades, beauty, economic achievement, and various quantified ?aptitudes.? This unique text focuses both on the macro and micro aspects of social and cultural life, discussing such topics as culture, socialization, peer groups, reference groups, presentations of self, gender roles, class inequality, deindustrialization, corporate downsizing, status systems, and human agency. The author takes a critical look at modern cultural values that support the performance ethic and concludes with hope for a reorientation of cultural values that could promote a more productive, authentic selfhood in America.

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