Measuring Up : The Performance Ethic In American Culture
by
James Mannon
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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 studiesSociology & anthropologySocial, 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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