圖書標籤: 社會學 美國 社會階層結構 教育 兒童教育 政治學 美國政治 社會
发表于2024-05-20
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A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. But during the last twenty-five years we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. Americans have always believed in equality of opportunity, the idea that all kids, regardless of their family background, should have a decent chance to improve their lot in life. Now, this central tenet of the American dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was.
Robert Putnam—about whom The Economist said, “his scholarship is wide-ranging, his intelligence luminous, his tone modest, his prose unpretentious and frequently funny”—offers a personal but also authoritative look at this new American crisis. Putnam begins with his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. By and large the vast majority of those students—“our kids”—went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have had harder lives amid diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, drawing on a formidable body of research done especially for this book.
Our Kids is a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence. Putnam provides a disturbing account of the American dream that should initiate a deep examination of the future of our country.
Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Nationally honored as a leading humanist and a renowned scientist, he has written fourteen books and has consulted for the last four US Presidents. His research program, the Saguaro Seminar, is dedicated to fostering civic engagement in America.
清晰,清醒,親切,有力。教育機會的缺失背後是社會流動性的(可能不可逆轉的)喪失。怎麼讓彆人傢的孩子重新變成“我們的孩子”,這是帕特南的天問。
評分2.5星吧,優點是說的都是大實話、有案例而不是乾巴巴、最後努力給建議,缺點是忽略瞭國際國內政經大背景、社會價值觀和政經體製缺陷、以及乾貨太少都是廢話
評分The American dream has been betrayed. While the US opportunity gap is widening by the change of modern family structure and the inequality in parenting, neighborhoods segregation and school choosing, everyone could be the killer or saver to American democracy.
評分不平等問題 美國的另一麵,也是中國的另一麵
評分完全被我當育兒書看,倒數第二章講解決方案的大部分側重政府層麵,而我期待的是個人層麵,哈哈,不怪作者。
“你的过去并非我的过去,你的现在甚至也不是我的现在。” 最近有幸关注到这本书,读起来有一种亲切之感,甚至有一瞬间的恍惚,我以为书中说的是中国的事情。实在是太相似了。美国目前的教育现状就是不就是我们面临的现状。书中选取了美国不同地点的父子或母女进行采访。由于选...
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