LEADER 04155nam 22007095 450 001 9910821977303321 005 20230126220256.0 010 $a0-520-96890-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520968905 035 $a(CKB)3790000000534574 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4820031 035 $a(DE-B1597)519369 035 $a(OCoLC)988581170 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520968905 035 $a(EXLCZ)993790000000534574 100 $a20191221d2018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Nightmares $eSocial Problems in an Anxious World /$fJoel Best 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (253 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a0-520-29634-6 311 0 $a0-520-29635-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tPart One: Contemporary Concerns --$t1. Popular Hazards; or, How We Insist Similar Social Problems Are Different --$t2. American Nightmares; or, Why Sociologists Hate the American Dream /$rSchweingruber, David --$tPart Two: Constructing Future Problems --$t3. Evaluating Predictions; or, How to Compare the Maya Calendar, Social Security, and Climate Change --$t4. Future Talk; or, How Slippery Slopes Shape Concern --$tPart Three: Looking Backward and Beyond Sociology --$t5. Memories as Problems; or, How to Reconsider Confederate Flags and Other Symbols of the Past /$rNichols, Lawrence T. --$t6. Economicization; or, Why Economists Get More Respect Than Sociologists --$tAfterword: The Future of American Nightmares --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aIn an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream-to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement-recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting-or are on the verge of getting-worse. In American Nightmares, Best addresses the apprehension that we face every day as we are bombarded with threats that the social institutions we count on are imperiled. Our schools are failing to teach our kids. Healthcare may soon be harder to obtain. We can't bank on our retirement plans. And our homes-still the largest chunk of most people's net worth-may lose much of their value. Our very way of life is being threatened! Or is it? With a steady voice and keen focus, Best examines how a culture develops fears and fantasies and how these visions are created and recreated in every generation. By dismantling current ideas about the future, collective memory, and sociology's marginalization in the public square, Best sheds light on how social problems-and our anxiety about them-are socially constructed. 606 $aAnxiety$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 610 $aamerican dream. 610 $aanxiety. 610 $acollective memory. 610 $adaily apprehension. 610 $adismantling ideas about the future. 610 $aearly retirement. 610 $afantasies. 610 $afears. 610 $agenerations. 610 $agraduate from college. 610 $ahealthcare. 610 $ainsecure social times. 610 $akids not learning. 610 $anet worth. 610 $aown a home. 610 $aschools failing. 610 $asocial institutions. 610 $asocial problems. 610 $asocially constructed problems. 610 $asociology marginalization. 610 $asociology. 615 0$aAnxiety$xSocial aspects 676 $a306.0973 700 $aBest$b Joel$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.$0477506 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821977303321 996 $aAmerican Nightmares$93953305 997 $aUNINA