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Prof. Robert Baskerville's SOC: American Dream

This guide is used in supplement with Prof. Baskerville's Soc class for Fall 2017 in order to augment materials and learning objectives.

American Dream materials

Academic Sources

"American Dream" International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William A. Darity, Jr., 2nd ed., vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2008, pp. 96-97.

Barnes, Sandra L. "American Dream Ideology." Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic, edited by Charles A. Gallagher and Cameron D. Lippard, vol. 1, Greenwood, 2014, p. 39.

"The American Dream." Drama for Students, edited by Ira Mark Milne, vol. 25, Gale, 2008, pp. 1-22.

David, Patty, et al. "Generation X and Its Evolving Experience with the American Dream." Generations, vol. 4, no. 3, Fall2017, pp. 77-83.

Pursuing the American Dream: Economic Mobility Across Generations, The Pew Charitable Trust, July 2012, http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2012/pursuingamericandreampdf.pdf

Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America, Julia B. Isaacs, Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins, The Brookings Institution, 2008, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/02_economic_mobility_sawhill.pdf

Understanding Mobility in America, Tom Hertz, Center for American Progress, April 26, 2006, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2006/04/26/1917/understanding-mobility-in-america/

The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940, National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/papers/abs_mobility_paper.pdf

US intergenerational mobility since WWII , Nathaniel Hilger 17 July 2015 https://voxeu.org/article/us-intergenerational-mobility-wwii

Hauhart, Robert. "American Sociology's Investigations of the American Dream: Retrospect and Prospect." American Sociologist, vol. 46, no. 1, Mar. 2015, pp. 65-98.

 

Popular Sources

Wax, Amy L. "Saving the American Dream: It's Not Just about the People at the Top." Commentary, vol. 144, no. 4, Nov. 2017, pp. 33-39.

The United States of Inequality, Timothy Noah.

Is the Gig Ecnomy Working?: Many Liberals Have Embraced the Sharing Economy. But Can They Survive It?, Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, May 15, 2017.

Zakaria, Fareed. "Restoring the American Dream. (Cover Story)." Time, vol. 176, no. 18, 11/1/2010, pp. 30-35.

AT LABOR’S CROSSROADS. By: YESELSON, RICH, Nation, 00278378, 3/27/2017, Vol. 304, Issue 10.

Borosage, Robert L. and Katrina Vanden Heuvel. "THE AMERICAN DREAM: Can a Movement Save It? (Cover Story)." Nation, vol. 293, no. 15, 10 Oct. 2011, pp. 11-15.

 

Movies

Inequality for All, Robert Reich

Park Avenue

The Commanding Heights

 

Podcast

What the Rise of the Gig Economy Means for the American Dream https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-07-14/what-rise-gig-economy-means-american-dream