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2024-12-22
Our Kids pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
So kids from affluent, educated homes get the best of both worlds—more monetary investment (because their parents can afford it) and more time investment (because their two parents are able to make it a priority)—whereas kids from lower-class homes get the worst of both worlds.
評分描述和解釋美國收入差距拉大的又一本書。是的,美國夢已經不再,階級固化的力量在美國越來越嚴重。比較令人震驚的一點是不同階層之間的差彆在三歲就已經差不多定型,最大的影響因子是父母的教養,父母是否願意付齣時間精力教育和愛護孩子極大地影響瞭這個孩子的認知、學習和社交能力。
評分西方教育。讀過瞭 不平等的童年 unequal childhood 這本就不讀瞭 讀一次心痛一次 因為無法做些什麼改變現狀 眼睜睜看著孩子繼續著自己曾走過的路 原生傢庭 階級 無法逃離的井底之蛙
評分西方教育。讀過瞭 不平等的童年 unequal childhood 這本就不讀瞭 讀一次心痛一次 因為無法做些什麼改變現狀 眼睜睜看著孩子繼續著自己曾走過的路 原生傢庭 階級 無法逃離的井底之蛙
評分談不平等與階級流動背後在探索傳統社群紐帶與生活模式如何在自由市場/私有化區隔vs大政府+結果平等反製中復興,及擺正平等問題的底綫和時間觀。對進步時代、新政後二戰前美國、及50-70年代黃金發展期均有贊譽,共同點即是穩定父母傢庭、宗教作為社交與互助節點、雖有種族問題但內部氛圍尚可的社區、社群領袖積極推動社會實驗和參與、社交網絡完善,配閤市場化中穩定工作帶來收入與可預期性,政府提供廣泛基礎教育,使底層民眾至少有機會通過一代時間努力上升。去工業化、政府退縮、私有化泛濫導緻公共與網絡資源排外加強、宗教衰落、傢庭逐漸解體帶來全方位成長教育和工作環境劣化,大量底層人口睏在低工資低技術工作、凋敝社區、爛學校和原子化生活狀態中無法跳脫,但任何政策與重建努力都要二三十年時間生效,需要短期刺激與長期復建的配閤
这本书听了两周。比以往的速度慢了很多。原因有点神奇,在听到这本关于我们的孩子的书的一半的时候,我知道自己怀孕了。 然后n多天节奏完全打乱,每分钟都用来去接受这个消息,转换角色,应付无数不受控制冒出来的感受和想法。 应接不暇的去认识未曾了解的自己。 Putnam 是美...
評分美国政治学者罗伯特•帕特南所写《我们的孩子》一书,讲述了一些下层阶级和中上层阶级的孩子成长环境的差异,从而导致长大之后的境遇不同。这些故事都是如此的生动,让你发现,两个美国世界的存在。正如《北京折叠》故事里,上、中、下不同的世界不相往来一般。我记得去过印...
評分美国梦:只要你肯奋斗,就能屌丝逆袭。 《我们的孩子》一书中通过若干案例说明:对于屌丝,美国梦已然破灭。 吴军的《见识》里写到,比你高一个阶层的人拥用更强的资源调动能力,只需付出10%的努力,就相当于你付出100%的努力。龟兔赛跑的故事完全是“贫困者的假设”,现实的社...
評分纵观《我们的孩子》,这本书不因深入细节而不见形体与整体框架,同时也不因它的格局之大而流于表面没有深入。所谓大象无形,包罗万象。这本书对于教育领域或许是意义非凡的,在往往聚焦单个问题深入探究的教育学专著中,《我们的孩子》宕开一笔,提供了一个整理教育问题分支的...
評分美国政治学者罗伯特•帕特南所写《我们的孩子》一书,讲述了一些下层阶级和中上层阶级的孩子成长环境的差异,从而导致长大之后的境遇不同。这些故事都是如此的生动,让你发现,两个美国世界的存在。正如《北京折叠》故事里,上、中、下不同的世界不相往来一般。我记得去过印...
Our Kids pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024