Our Kids

Robert D. Putnam is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Nationally honored as a leading humanist and a renowned scientist, he has written fourteen books and has consulted for the last four US Presidents. His research program, the Saguaro Seminar, is dedicated to fostering civic engagement in America.

出版者:Simon & Schuster

作者:Robert D. Putnam

页数:416

出版时间:2015-3

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781476769899

图书标签:社会学美国社会阶层结构教育儿童教育政治学美国政治社会

A groundbreaking examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.

It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe in—a nation of opportunity, constrained only by ability and effort. But during the last twenty-five years we have seen a disturbing “opportunity gap” emerge. Americans have always believed in equality of opportunity, the idea that all kids, regardless of their family background, should have a decent chance to improve their lot in life. Now, this central tenet of the American dream seems no longer true or at the least, much less true than it was.

Robert Putnam—about whom The Economist said, “his scholarship is wide-ranging, his intelligence luminous, his tone modest, his prose unpretentious and frequently funny”—offers a personal but also authoritative look at this new American crisis. Putnam begins with his high school class of 1959 in Port Clinton, Ohio. By and large the vast majority of those students—“our kids”—went on to lives better than those of their parents. But their children and grandchildren have had harder lives amid diminishing prospects. Putnam tells the tale of lessening opportunity through poignant life stories of rich and poor kids from cities and suburbs across the country, drawing on a formidable body of research done especially for this book.

Our Kids is a rare combination of individual testimony and rigorous evidence. Putnam provides a disturbing account of the American dream that should initiate a deep examination of the future of our country.

读后感

《我们的孩子》是一份研究报告，作者和他的团队用了数年时间，走访了百余个家庭，和家庭的孩子和父母进行了访谈。他们试图回答一个问题：在一个阶级固化的社会里，寒门为什么再难出贵子？作者团队对比了贫穷人家和富裕人家孩子的成长过程，发现富人的孩子比穷人家孩子拥有更多...  

Intro 大概是去年的六月，正是考研人正式进入备考状态的时期，我向波波谈起了对社会阶层的思考与抱怨，那时（当然现在也是）我常常陷入一种怨天尤人的状态里，急需来自长辈的开导，虽然她连自己的事情都忙不完，但还是会发给我长长的语音转文字的回答，让人心生温暖。就是这时...  

在何帆老师推荐下读了《我们的孩子》，通过几十个短故事定向说明和定量数据描述了当下美国阶层固化对于孩子未来的影响，可读性很强通俗易懂。文中主要讨论了，家庭结构、父母教育方式、童年期的发育和同学之间的相互影响，课外活动的机会，以及邻里和社区影响，童工造成了大学...  

用户评价

So kids from affluent, educated homes get the best of both worlds—more monetary investment (because their parents can afford it) and more time investment (because their two parents are able to make it a priority)—whereas kids from lower-class homes get the worst of both worlds.

角度、研究方法、结论、写法都给跪。推荐。

完全被我当育儿书看，倒数第二章讲解决方案的大部分侧重政府层面，而我期待的是个人层面，哈哈，不怪作者。

角度、研究方法、结论、写法都给跪。推荐。

清晰，清醒，亲切，有力。教育机会的缺失背后是社会流动性的（可能不可逆转的）丧失。怎么让别人家的孩子重新变成“我们的孩子”，这是帕特南的天问。