American society today
Aiming to provide a balanced introduction to the defining features of contemporary American society, this text includes the ways in which the US can be considered "exceptional" - the character of the "American dream", the role of ethnicity and race and the differences between the regions.
Print Book, English, 2002
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002
viii, 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
9780719060212, 9780719060229, 0719060214, 0719060222
1171833739
1. American exceptionalism2. The American dream and the modern economy3. Individualism and conformity4. Communities, civic decline and Bowling Alone5. The family, sex, and sexuality6. Race, ethnicity, and ‘Balkanisation’7. ‘One nation indivisible’: the American regions8. September 11th and after -- .