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Money, Morals, and Manners - The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
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Money, Morals, and Manners - The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Series: Morality and Society Series
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Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160
successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont
provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the
upper-middle class - the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs,
and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a
subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and
attitudes they consider essential in separating themselves - and
their class - from everyone else. For Lamont, the boundaries of
class are not marked by economics alone. She goes beyond crude
categories of status and simple measures of taste, wealth, and
possessions to reveal the role of moral and cultural distinctions
in setting the boundaries between the upper-middle class and those
above and below. Central to her analysis - and to the identity of
the men she interviewed - is the idea of a virtuous or worthy
person: members of the upper-middle class constantly define
themselves and others by making distinctions along this moral
dimension. There are important differences, however, within the
upper-middle class and between national cultures. Living in a
cosmopolitan city like New York or Paris is different than living
in a more provincial center like Indianapolis or Clermont-Ferrand;
those working in the profit sector hold very different values than
do those working for nonprofit organizations; and American men
place more emphasis on financial success than do their French
counterparts, who value personal integrity and cultural refinement
more. Unprecedented in its comparative reach, Money, Morals, and
Manners is an ambitious and sophisticated attempt to illuminate the
nature of social class in modern society. For allthose who downplay
the importance of unequal social groups, it will be a revelation.
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