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The end of the experiment : the rise of cultural elites and the decline of America's civic culture / Stanley Rothman ; Althea Nagai, Robert Maranto, Matthew C. Woessner, and David J. Rothman, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothman, Stanley, 1927-2011, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rothman, Stanley, 1927-2011.
- Elite (Social sciences)--United States--History--20th century.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- New Left.
- History.
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- New Left--United States--History.
- Rothman, Stanley, 1927-2011--Influence.
- Rothman, Stanley.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 239 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2016]
- Summary:
- 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. 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. In a final section, Rothman's contemporaries provide insight into his work, reflecting on his continued influence and his devotion to traditional liberalism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I: The unraveling of liberal capitalism. Post-industrial America
- A changing America
- Post-Calvinist society and the rise of the modern intellectual
- The communications revolution and American society
- Part II: New strategic elites. Elites in conflict: the theory
- Elites in conflict: the findings
- Personality, occupation, and social change
- Afterword
- Part III: Rothman's impact. Stanly Rothman: scholar and academic citizen / Stephen H. Balch
- The new left and poltical intolerance / April Kelly-Woesner
- People are more important than ideas: the achievement of Stanley Rothman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412862486
- 1412862485
- OCLC:
- 940520182
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