Autore	Lane Robert E. <1917-2017.>
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (238 pages)
Disciplina	306/.0973
Collana	Evolving Values For A Capitalist World
Soggetto topico	Contentment Humanistic ethics Interpersonal relations -- United States Materialism - United States Quality of life - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-43781-X 9786612437816 0-472-02417-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Foreword by Neva Goodwin; Acknowledgments; Spanakopita One Prologue; Spanakopita Two What Should We Be Doing?; Spanakopita Three What's Wrong with Materialism?; Spanakopita Four Humanism: The Value of Persons; Spanakopita Five The Humanist-Materialist Axis; Spanakopita Six Diminishing Returns to Happiness; Spanakopita Seven Better People; Spanakopita Eight Getting Rich the Right Way; Spanakopita Nine After the End of History; Notes
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456359903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1991]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xv, 579 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	306/.0973
Soggetto topico	Social change Social institutions - United States Social problems
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-585-32608-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction : change from the bottom up / Alan Wolfe -- Backward toward the postmodern family : reflections on gender, kinship, and class in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey -- Coping with commitment : dilemmas and conflicts of family life / Kathleen Gerson -- Minor difficulties : changing children in the late twentieth century / Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling -- Ambivalent communities : how Americans understand their localities / Claude S. Fischer -- Mirrors and metaphors : the United States and its trade rivals / Fred Block -- Uncertain seas : cultural turmoil and the domestic economy / Katherine S. Newman -- Labor and management in uncertain times : renegotiating the social contract / Ruth Milkman. The blue-collar working class : continuity and change / David Halle and Frank Romo -- The enduring dilemma of race in America / Bart Landry -- Passages to America : perspectives on the new immigration / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- The hollow center : U.S. cities in the global era / Sharon Zukin -- National news culture and the rise of the informational citizen / Michael Schudson -- Schools under pressure / Caroline Hodges Persell -- Doctor no longer knows best : changing American attitudes toward medicine and health / Jonathan B. Imber -- Unlikely alliances : the changing contours of American religious faith / James Davison Hunter and John Steadman Rice -- Pluralism and disdain : American culture today / Gaye Tuchman. Complexities of conservatism : how conservatives understand the world / Rebecca Klatch -- The return of Rambo : war and culture in the post-Vietnam era / J. William Gibson -- Criminals' passions and the progressive's dilemma / Jack Katz -- Through the prism of time : temporal structures in postindustrial America / Carmen Sirianni and Andrea Walsh -- Contentless consensus : the political discourse of a segmented society / Richard Madsen -- Out of the frying pan, into ... what? / Alan Wolfe.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910496143803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; ; London : , : New York University Press, , [2005]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (269 p.)
Disciplina	306/.0973
Altri autori (Persone)	StearnsPeter N
Soggetto topico	Psychology - United States - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4798-8514-2 0-8147-0863-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction / Peter N. Stearns -- Family and childhood -- The cute child and modern American parenting / Gary Cross -- Abduction stories that changed our lives: from Charley Ross to modern behavior / Paula Fass -- "If they have any orders, I am theirs to command": indulgent middle-class grandparents in American society / Linda W. Rosenzweig -- Emotions and consumer behavior -- There's no place like home: homesickness & homemaking in America / Susan J. Matt -- Horseless horses: car dealing and the survival of retail bargaining / Steven M. Gelber -- Death and mourning -- American death / Peter N. Stearns -- Laid out in "big mama's kitchen": African Americans and the personalized theme funeral / Suzanne Smith -- Perception of the senses -- Making scents make sense: white noses, black smells, and desegregation / Mark M. Smith -- Sexuality -- Tainted love: the transformation of oral-genital behavior in the United States, 1970-2000 / Kevin White.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910479976203321

Autore	Myers David G.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (430 p.)
Disciplina	306/.0973
Soggetto topico	Social ethics - United States Communitarianism - United States
ISBN	1-281-72233-2 9786611722333 0-300-13029-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times -- 2. The Sexual Swing -- 3. The Past and Future of Marriage -- 4. America's Children -- 5. Violence -- 6. Money and Misery -- 7. Individualism and Community -- 8. Media, Minds, and the Public Good -- 9. Educating for a Moral Compass -- 10. Faith and Society -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452346203321