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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Successful American
Author: The American Myth of Success
Author: Richard WeissPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060434
Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
From the introduction: "Tradition has it that every American child receives, as part of his birthright, the freedom to mold his own life. . . . However inaccurate as a description of American society, the success myth reflects what millions believe that society is or ought to be. The degree to which opportunity has or has not been available in our society is a subject for empirical investigation. It rests within the realm of verifiable fact. The belief that opportunity exists for all is a subject for intellectual analysis and rests within the realm of ideology. This latter dimension of the success myth is the primary focus of this book."
The American Idea of Success
Author: Richard M. HuberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Great American Success Story
Author: George GallupPublisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The great American success story offers you the opportunity to sit down with some of the most accomplished people in America and learn from the best of the best what it takes to be a success. /
The Successful Entrepreneur
Author: Thomas E. AnastasiPublisher: Glenbridge Publishing Ltd.
ISBN: 094443567X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution
Author: Irving KristolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Successful American, Volume 7, Part 1 - Volume 8, Part 1
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9781022345638
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Producing Success
Author: Peter DemerathPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226142426
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as Producing Success makes clear, the problem goes beyond mere economics. In this eye-opening study, Peter Demerath examines a typical suburban American high school to explain how some students get ahead. Demerath undertook four years of research at a Midwestern high school to examine the mercilessly competitive culture that drives students to advance. Producing Success reveals the many ways the community’s ideology of achievement plays out: students hone their work ethics and employ various strategies to succeed, from negotiating with teachers to cheating; parents relentlessly push their children while manipulating school policies to help them get ahead; and administrators aid high performers in myriad ways, even naming over forty students “valedictorians.” Yet, as Demerath shows, this unswerving commitment to individual advancement takes its toll, leading to student stress and fatigue, incivility and vandalism, and the alienation of the less successful. Insightful and candid, Producing Success is an often troubling account of the educationally and morally questionable results of the American culture of success.
The Failure of Success
Author: Lawrence R. SamuelPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527554171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This history of success in the United States illustrates the degree to which personal and professional accomplishments have determined overall life satisfaction. Beyond serving as a guide to the past, present, and future of success in America, especially that found in the business world, this book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success, notably wealth, power, and fame, has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. More specifically, it shows that a comparative and competitive view of success has made a significant number of individuals feel less successful than if more inner-directed measures were used. Ironically then, the traditional model of success in the United States has been largely a failure. This work offers historians, practitioners, and general readers of non-fiction a blueprint for how to adopt a more meaningful and positive model of success in their everyday lives.
The Triple Package
Author: Jed RubenfeldPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408852225
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Why do Jews win so many Nobel Prizes and Pulitzer Prizes? Why are Mormons running the business and finance sectors? Why do the children of even impoverished and poorly educated Chinese immigrants excel so remarkably at school? It may be taboo to say it, but some cultural groups starkly outperform others. The bestselling husband and wife team Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and Jed Rubenfeld, author of The Interpretation of Murder, reveal the three essential components of success – its hidden spurs, inner dynamics and its potentially damaging costs – showing how, ultimately, when properly understood and harnessed, the Triple Package can put anyone on their chosen path to success.