The elsewhere society
Subtitle: how we got where we are not
By: Dalton Conley.
Publisher: New York; Pantheon Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Pantheon Books
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780375422904
Subjects: Social change.; Social structure.; Social problems.; Economic indicators.; Social indicators.
Description: Examining the dramatic changes that have occurred in American society over the past three decades, the author of The Pecking Order offers a thoughtful study of the new social realities of life, explaining how the social, economic, and technological transformation has reshaped individual lives.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Life among the elsewhere class; title: From the Protestant ethic to the elsewhere ethic; title: And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile; title: : from General Motors to Google; title: One plus a hundred zeros : welcome to your (n)office; title: Convestment : the way we earn and spend; title: Shoot the moon : public life in an age of private markets; title: From elsewhere to nowhere : crime and punishment; title: Polymorphous perversity : family life in the elsewhere society; title: The birth of the intravidual; title: Conclusion: Learning to love the blackberry.