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Paths to success : beating the odds in American society / Charles C. Harrington, Susan K. Boardman.
Lippincott Library HF5386 .H267 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrington, Charles C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Success in business--United States.
- Success in business.
- United States.
- Success--United States.
- Success.
- Social mobility--United States.
- Social mobility.
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Statisticians tell us that impoverished backgrounds are fairly accurate predictors of impoverished futures. This book seeks out the stories behind the exceptions. While the authors reveal consistencies between pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674657942
- OCLC:
- 36647815
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