Description
A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV's "real housewives" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on "easy street"? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers--from hedge fund financiers and artists to stay-at-home mothers--to examine their lifestyle choices and understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us.Author: Rachel Sherman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 05/14/2019
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780691191904
ISBN10: 0691191905
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Social Science | Popular Culture
About the Author
Rachel Sherman teaches sociology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels.