American Society: How It Really Works - Wright, Erik Olin

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Résumé :
In American Society: How It Really Works, Erik Olin Wright and Joel Rogers ask several key questions: What kind of society is America? How does it really work and why is it the way it is? In what ways does it need changing, and how can those changes be brought about? To answer these questions, Wright and Rogers identify five core social values that most Americans affirm in one way or another: freedom, prosperity, efficiency, fairness, and democracy. The authors then challenge readers to question to what degree contemporary American society actually lives up to these values and suggest how we might make progress in solving some of the social problems that confront America today....

Biographie:
Erik Olin Wright was Vilas Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A giant in the field of contemporary Marxian sociology, Wright's research mainly involved large-scale quantitative investigations of various themes connected to social inequality. Wright was the author of many books, including Class Counts, Interrogating Inequality, and Classes. He also organized what he called the Real Utopias Project, which is also a series of books for Verso, that explored a wide range of radical proposals for transforming the core institutions of contemporary society. In addition, he founded the A. E. Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose mission is to foster dialogue between activists and academics and to encourage critical perspectives on contemporary social issues....

Sommaire:
Erik Olin Wright was Vilas Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A giant in the field of contemporary Marxian sociology, Wright's research mainly involved large-scale quantitative investigations of various themes connected to social inequality. Wright was the author of many books, including Class Counts, Interrogating Inequality, and Classes. He also organized what he called the Real Utopias Project, which is also a series of books for Verso, that explored a wide range of radical proposals for transforming the core institutions of contemporary society. In addition, he founded the A. E. Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose mission is to foster dialogue between activists and academics and to encourage critical perspectives on contemporary social issues....