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.
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.
全书对美国现在社会分层固化的几个主要方面进行讨论:家庭结构、家庭教育、学校教育、社区环境。总结了这些方面的社会科学研究的结果,然后针对每一个专题专门采访了正面负面各一个家庭做例子,并以这些家庭的故事开头,给枯燥的统计数字带来些直观的感受。总的结论很简单,就...
评分纵观《我们的孩子》,这本书不因深入细节而不见形体与整体框架,同时也不因它的格局之大而流于表面没有深入。所谓大象无形,包罗万象。这本书对于教育领域或许是意义非凡的,在往往聚焦单个问题深入探究的教育学专著中,《我们的孩子》宕开一笔,提供了一个整理教育问题分支的...
评分美国政治学者罗伯特•帕特南所写《我们的孩子》一书,讲述了一些下层阶级和中上层阶级的孩子成长环境的差异,从而导致长大之后的境遇不同。这些故事都是如此的生动,让你发现,两个美国世界的存在。正如《北京折叠》故事里,上、中、下不同的世界不相往来一般。我记得去过印...
评分全书对美国现在社会分层固化的几个主要方面进行讨论:家庭结构、家庭教育、学校教育、社区环境。总结了这些方面的社会科学研究的结果,然后针对每一个专题专门采访了正面负面各一个家庭做例子,并以这些家庭的故事开头,给枯燥的统计数字带来些直观的感受。总的结论很简单,就...
评分纵观《我们的孩子》,这本书不因深入细节而不见形体与整体框架,同时也不因它的格局之大而流于表面没有深入。所谓大象无形,包罗万象。这本书对于教育领域或许是意义非凡的,在往往聚焦单个问题深入探究的教育学专著中,《我们的孩子》宕开一笔,提供了一个整理教育问题分支的...
2.5星吧,优点是说的都是大实话、有案例而不是干巴巴、最后努力给建议,缺点是忽略了国际国内政经大背景、社会价值观和政经体制缺陷、以及干货太少都是废话
评分谈不平等与阶级流动背后在探索传统社群纽带与生活模式如何在自由市场/私有化区隔vs大政府+结果平等反制中复兴,及摆正平等问题的底线和时间观。对进步时代、新政后二战前美国、及50-70年代黄金发展期均有赞誉,共同点即是稳定父母家庭、宗教作为社交与互助节点、虽有种族问题但内部氛围尚可的社区、社群领袖积极推动社会实验和参与、社交网络完善,配合市场化中稳定工作带来收入与可预期性,政府提供广泛基础教育,使底层民众至少有机会通过一代时间努力上升。去工业化、政府退缩、私有化泛滥导致公共与网络资源排外加强、宗教衰落、家庭逐渐解体带来全方位成长教育和工作环境劣化,大量底层人口困在低工资低技术工作、凋敝社区、烂学校和原子化生活状态中无法跳脱,但任何政策与重建努力都要二三十年时间生效,需要短期刺激与长期复建的配合
评分描述和解释美国收入差距拉大的又一本书。是的,美国梦已经不再,阶级固化的力量在美国越来越严重。比较令人震惊的一点是不同阶层之间的差别在三岁就已经差不多定型,最大的影响因子是父母的教养,父母是否愿意付出时间精力教育和爱护孩子极大地影响了这个孩子的认知、学习和社交能力。
评分本书写法的精髓在于把枯燥的统计数据转换成栩栩如生的例子,读到最后,你不能不感叹,穷孩子富孩子都是“我们”的孩子。很多人也许看不到贫穷人民的生活状态,甚至无法理解他们做的种种决定。但恰恰是因为稀有的资源而剥夺了他们进一步上升的渠道。如果把这个仅仅归于他们不够聪明,不够努力,实在有失偏颇。
评分pas mal.
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