American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability

Robert Wuthnow

American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
13 October 2020
Pages
352
ISBN
9780691210711

American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability

Robert Wuthnow

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don’t make the grade

How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning a decent living? Or did it require something more? And if it did, what can we learn that may still apply?

The quest for middle-class respectabil

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