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Everyone's a winner [[electronic resource] ] : life in our congratulatory culture / / Joel Best



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Autore: Best Joel Visualizza persona
Titolo: Everyone's a winner [[electronic resource] ] : life in our congratulatory culture / / Joel Best Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
Disciplina: 305
Soggetto topico: Equality - United States
Motivation (Psychology) - United States
Social status - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions
United States Social life and customs
Soggetto non controllato: achievement
ambition
american society
anthropology
awards
competition
confidence
congratulations
excellence
high achievement
honoring students
millennial generation
nonfiction
performance
pop psychology
pop science
popular culture
prizes
pursuit of perfection
rankings
recognition
self esteem
social commentary
social media
social networks
social status
social worlds
status
success
trophies
valedictorian
winners
Classificazione: HT 4705
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Life in an Era of Status Abundance -- Chapter Two. Prize Proliferation -- Chapter Three. Honoring Students -- Chapter Four. Everyday Heroes -- Chapter Five. Ranking and Rating -- Chapter Six. The Significance of Congratulatory Culture -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians-of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA-Number 1." Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range from "Academy Award winner!" to "Best Neighborhood Pizza!" In Everyone's a Winner, Joel Best- acclaimed author of Damned Lies and Statistics and many other books-shines a bright light on the increasing abundance of status in our society and considers what it all means. With humor and insight, Best argues that status affluence fosters social worlds and, in the process, helps give meaning to life in a large society.
Titolo autorizzato: Everyone's a winner  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27766-2
9786613277664
0-520-94848-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785576403321
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