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"Winner of the Mary Douglas Prize, Culture Section of the American Sociological Association"
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Dreams of a Lifetime belongs to a particular shelf, one that holds those books that utilize sociology seriously to best capture the pulse of the United States at a particular juncture in time. In this tradition, one can find treatises about loneliness (Riesman, Slater), disconnection (Putnam, Sennett), how people think and feel (Bellah et al.), the life of those on the lower ladders of this society (Sennett and Cobb, Liebow, and more recently Desmond as well as Horschild). A lot has changed since some of these books were published. . . but the impetus remains the same: to explain to ourselves who we are at a particular juncture in time, in a jargon free, yet sociologically informed way.

"---Claudio E. Benzecry, Sociological Forum

Dreams of a Lifetime

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 21 June 2022
      ISBN-13 9780691229096
      978-0691229096
      ISBN-10 0691229090
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      Business, Finance & Law Economics Social classes Social forecasting, future studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Winner of the Mary Douglas Prize, Culture Section of the American Sociological Association"
      "

      Dreams of a Lifetime belongs to a particular shelf, one that holds those books that utilize sociology seriously to best capture the pulse of the United States at a particular juncture in time. In this tradition, one can find treatises about loneliness (Riesman, Slater), disconnection (Putnam, Sennett), how people think and feel (Bellah et al.), the life of those on the lower ladders of this society (Sennett and Cobb, Liebow, and more recently Desmond as well as Horschild). A lot has changed since some of these books were published. . . but the impetus remains the same: to explain to ourselves who we are at a particular juncture in time, in a jargon free, yet sociologically informed way.

      "---Claudio E. Benzecry, Sociological Forum

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