The End of the Experiment
Subtitle: the Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America's Civic Culture
By: Stanley Rothman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781351295642
Subjects: Influence; Elite (Social sciences); History; Political culture; New Left; Social conditions; Élite (Sciences sociales); Histoire; Nouvelle gauche; Conditions sociales; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: "The End of the Experiment ties together Stanley Rothman's theory of post-industrialism and his four decades of research on American politics and society. Rothman discusses the rise and fall of the New Left, the sixties' impact on America's cultural elites, and the emergence of new post-industrial humanistic values. The first part of this book explains how cultural shifts in post-industrial society increased the influence of intellectuals and redefined America's core values. The second part examines how the shift in American social and cultural values led to a crisis of confidence in the American experiment. And in a final section, Rothman's contemporaries provide insight into his work, reflecting on his continued influence and his devotion to traditional liberalism. Rothman presents a quantitative study of personality differences between traditional American elites and new cultural elites. Rothman argues that the experiment of America--as a new nation rooted in democracy, morality, and civic virtue--is being destroyed by a disaffected intellectual class opposed to traditional values."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I The Unraveling of Liberal Capitalism  -- Stanley Rothman; title: chapter 1 Post-Industrial America  -- Stanley Rothman; title: chapter 2 A Changing America  -- Stanley Rothman; title: chapter 3 Post-Calvinist Society and the Rise of the Modern Intellectual  -- Stanley Rothman; title: chapter 4 The Communications Revolution and American Society  -- Stanley Rothman; title: part, II New Strategic Elites  -- Stanley Rothman; title: chapter 5 Elites in Conflict: The Theory  -- Althea Nagai; title: chapter 6 Elites in Conflict: The Findings  -- Althea Nagai; title: chapter 7 Personality, Occupation, and Social Change  -- Althea Nagai; title: chapter 8 Afterword  -- Althea Nagai; title: part, III Rothman's Impact  -- Stanley Rothman; title: chapter 9 Stanley Rothman: Scholar and Academic Citizen  -- Stephen H. Balch; title: chapter 10 The New Left and Political Intolerance  -- April Kelly-Woessner; title: chapter 11 "People Are More Important Than Ideas": The Achievement of Stanley Rothman -- David J. Rothman.