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From ‘having’ to ‘being’: self-worth and the current crisis of American society

  • With growing inequality, the American dream is becoming less effective as a collective myth. With its focus on material success, competition and self-reliance, the intensified diffusion of neoliberal scripts of the self is leading the uppermiddle class toward a mental health crisis while the working class and lowincome groups do not have the resources needed to live the dream. African Americans, Latinos and undocumented immigrants, who are presumed to lack self-reliance, face more rigid boundaries. One possible way forward is broadening cultural membership by promoting new narratives of hope centered on a plurality of criteria of worth, ‘ordinary universalism’ and destigmatizing stigmatized groups.

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Author:Michèle Lamont
Parent Title (English):The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 70 (No. 3, 2019), pp. 660-707.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2019
Release Date:2020/11/03
Format:PDF-file upon request / PDF-Datei auf Anfrage
IdNo:Lamont_M_2019
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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