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American misfits and the making of middle-class respectability / Robert Wuthnow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wuthnow, Robert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle class--History.
- Middle class.
- Middle class--United States--History.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 A Relational Approach: The Social Construction of Respect and Respectability 19
- Chapter 2 Worked as a Huckster: Moral Connotations of Placeless Labor 39
- Chapter 3 An Incurable Lunatic: Pension Politics in the Struggle for Respectability 70
- Chapter 4 Not a Fanatic: Zeal in the Cause of Zion 101
- Chapter 5 Dying Young: Immigrant Congregations as Moral Communities 135
- Chapter 6 Excessive Profits: Wealth, Morality, and the Common People 187
- Chapter 7 Naughty Children: Moral Instruction by Negative Example 227
- Chapter 8 Othering: Cultural Diversity and Symbolic Boundaries 258.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691176864
- 0691176868
- OCLC:
- 974676041
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