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.
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.
最近读完了2本书:拉鲁的《不平等的童年》及Putman’s 《Our Kids》,恰巧讲得是同一个主题:美国教育的阶级差异。两本书都采取了类似的研究方法:通过选取十几个家庭作为样本进行访谈与观察,并对样本家庭父母所处的社会地位(可获得的社会资源)作为分类,总结出了当今美国社...
評分Intro 大概是去年的六月,正是考研人正式进入备考状态的时期,我向波波谈起了对社会阶层的思考与抱怨,那时(当然现在也是)我常常陷入一种怨天尤人的状态里,急需来自长辈的开导,虽然她连自己的事情都忙不完,但还是会发给我长长的语音转文字的回答,让人心生温暖。就是这时...
評分就像跟随作者进入到不同的家庭,观察他们的孩子为什么赢/输在起跑线上;看书的过程中也在回忆自己的成长经历,问问自己有没有过时的片面的甚至宿命的育儿理念,这些理念可能会先于专业知识,影响我的孩子。当父母可能不是最难的,但可能是对知识的鲜度、对理论与实际的结合、对...
評分在何帆老师推荐下读了《我们的孩子》,通过几十个短故事定向说明和定量数据描述了当下美国阶层固化对于孩子未来的影响,可读性很强通俗易懂。文中主要讨论了,家庭结构、父母教育方式、童年期的发育和同学之间的相互影响,课外活动的机会,以及邻里和社区影响,童工造成了大学...
評分西方教育。讀過瞭 不平等的童年 unequal childhood 這本就不讀瞭 讀一次心痛一次 因為無法做些什麼改變現狀 眼睜睜看著孩子繼續著自己曾走過的路 原生傢庭 階級 無法逃離的井底之蛙
评分很有啓發
评分描述和解釋美國收入差距拉大的又一本書。是的,美國夢已經不再,階級固化的力量在美國越來越嚴重。比較令人震驚的一點是不同階層之間的差彆在三歲就已經差不多定型,最大的影響因子是父母的教養,父母是否願意付齣時間精力教育和愛護孩子極大地影響瞭這個孩子的認知、學習和社交能力。
评分角度、研究方法、結論、寫法都給跪。推薦。
评分談不平等與階級流動背後在探索傳統社群紐帶與生活模式如何在自由市場/私有化區隔vs大政府+結果平等反製中復興,及擺正平等問題的底綫和時間觀。對進步時代、新政後二戰前美國、及50-70年代黃金發展期均有贊譽,共同點即是穩定父母傢庭、宗教作為社交與互助節點、雖有種族問題但內部氛圍尚可的社區、社群領袖積極推動社會實驗和參與、社交網絡完善,配閤市場化中穩定工作帶來收入與可預期性,政府提供廣泛基礎教育,使底層民眾至少有機會通過一代時間努力上升。去工業化、政府退縮、私有化泛濫導緻公共與網絡資源排外加強、宗教衰落、傢庭逐漸解體帶來全方位成長教育和工作環境劣化,大量底層人口睏在低工資低技術工作、凋敝社區、爛學校和原子化生活狀態中無法跳脫,但任何政策與重建努力都要二三十年時間生效,需要短期刺激與長期復建的配閤
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