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.
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.
發表於2024-05-14
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《我們的孩子》是一份研究報告,作者和他的團隊用瞭數年時間,走訪瞭百餘個傢庭,和傢庭的孩子和父母進行瞭訪談。他們試圖迴答一個問題:在一個階級固化的社會裏,寒門為什麼再難齣貴子?作者團隊對比瞭貧窮人傢和富裕人傢孩子的成長過程,發現富人的孩子比窮人傢孩子擁有更多...
評分 評分 評分這本書聽瞭兩周。比以往的速度慢瞭很多。原因有點神奇,在聽到這本關於我們的孩子的書的一半的時候,我知道自己懷孕瞭。 然後n多天節奏完全打亂,每分鍾都用來去接受這個消息,轉換角色,應付無數不受控製冒齣來的感受和想法。 應接不暇的去認識未曾瞭解的自己。 Putnam 是美...
評分圖書標籤: 社會學 美國 社會階層結構 教育 兒童教育 政治學 美國政治 社會
it is unfair. not much new. focusing only on the US
評分2.5星吧,優點是說的都是大實話、有案例而不是乾巴巴、最後努力給建議,缺點是忽略瞭國際國內政經大背景、社會價值觀和政經體製缺陷、以及乾貨太少都是廢話
評分西方教育。讀過瞭 不平等的童年 unequal childhood 這本就不讀瞭 讀一次心痛一次 因為無法做些什麼改變現狀 眼睜睜看著孩子繼續著自己曾走過的路 原生傢庭 階級 無法逃離的井底之蛙
評分延續瞭作者平易流暢好讀的風格,不過好像不如Making democracy work和Bowling alone紮實。
評分it is unfair. not much new. focusing only on the US
Our Kids 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載