The American Dream in the Information Age
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780312222437
Subjects: Technology And Social Change; Social Science; Sociology; History: American; Social Aspects; Sociology - General; History / United States / 20th Century; United States - 20th Century; 1980-; Information society; Social conditions; Social values; United States
Description: "America's current transformation from an industrial to a new information-based culture presents new challenges to as well as new perspectives on old debates. This book explores the changing nature of the American dream in the context of past, current and impending developments." "The authors investigate the concept of American exceptionalism and examine how the melting pot is coping with race relations, and changing demographics. The domestic and global constraints on the agenda of government and the prospects for tackling social exclusion are explored."--Jacket.