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American Nightmares - Social Problems in an Anxious World (Hardcover)
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American Nightmares - Social Problems in an Anxious World (Hardcover)
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In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best
shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social
times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream-to
graduate from college, own a home, work toward early
retirement-recent generations have been told that the next
generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are
getting-or are on the verge of getting-worse. In American
Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day
as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we
count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids.
Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our
retirement plans. And our homes-still the largest chunk of most
people's net worth-may lose much of their value. Our very way of
life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen
focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and
how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By
dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and
sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light
on how social problems-and our anxiety about them-are socially
constructed.
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