1st Edition
The Anxiety of Ascent Middle-Class Narratives in Germany and America
By Scott Doidge
Copyright 2018
184 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism . For Weber, and a group of influential sociologists that followed, Western modernity is marked by growing disenchantment with the beliefs and values that had previously given a sense of structure and meaning to life. Despite its... Read more
1. Introduction
2. The German Bürgertum
3. Bourgeois Decadence
4. Imagining Springfield: The American Middle Class
5. Mad Men: Advertising the American Dream
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Scott Doidge is a teaching associate in Sociology at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
