Money, morals, and manners: the culture of the French and American upper-middle class
Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class - the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book i...
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Zusammenfassung: | Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class - the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider essential in separating themselves - and their class - from everyone else. For Lamont, the boundaries of class are not marked by economics alone. She goes beyond crude categories of status and simple measures of taste, wealth, and possessions to reveal the role of moral and cultural distinctions in setting the boundaries between the upper-middle class and those above and below. Central to her analysis - and to the identity of the men she interviewed - is the idea of a virtuous or worthy person: members of the upper-middle class constantly define themselves and others by making distinctions along this moral dimension. There are important differences, however, within the upper-middle class and between national cultures. Living in a cosmopolitan city like New York or Paris is different than living in a more provincial center like Indianapolis or Clermont-Ferrand; those working in the profit sector hold very different values than do those working for nonprofit organizations; and American men place more emphasis on financial success than do their French counterparts, who value personal integrity and cultural refinement more. Unprecedented in its comparative reach, Money, Morals, and Manners is an ambitious and sophisticated attempt to illuminate the nature of social class in modern society. For all those who downplay the importance of unequal social groups, it will be a revelation. |
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adam_text | CONTENTS
Tables and Maps xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Note to the Reader xvii
Prologue
SKETCHING THE LANDSCAPE: SOME ILLUSTRATIVE VIGNETTES xix
Cultural Sophistication as a sine qua non
Moral Tales
This Worldly Worlds
Chapter One
THE QUESTIONS AND THE STAGE 1
Issues and Approaches
Boundaries at Work
Procedures
Interviewing Experience
Chapter Two
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING HONEST KEYS TO MORAL BOUNDARIES 24
Phonies, Social Climbers, Salauds, and Other Polluting Categories
Moral Character in the Workplace
• Friendliness, Conflict Avoidance, and Teamwork in the American Workplace
• The Proof of the Pudding: Competence, Ambition, Competitiveness, and Moral
Purity in the American Workplace • Work Ethics, Competition, Competence, and
Brilliance in the French Workplace » The Contentious French: Teamwork, Sociability,
Conflict Avoidance, and Pragmatism in the French Workplace
The Religious Scene
Volunteerism
Conclusion
vi i
Chapter Three
THE WORLD OF SUCCESS, MONEY, AND POWER:
KEYS TO SOCIOECONOMIC BOUNDARIES 62
A World of Inequality
The Iron Law of Money
Power, Fame, and Glory: The French Definitions of Success
Variations on the Inner Circle
Class, Race, Gender, and Ethnicity
Antisocioeconomic Boundaries
Conclusion
Chapter four
MOST OF MY FRIENDS ARE REFINED:
KEYS TO CULTURAL BOUNDARIES 8 8
Against the Philistines
Cultural Exclusion, Brilliance, Expertise,
and Other Forms of Intelligence
Self Actualization
The Cultured World of Exclusion: The Case of Bad Taste
Intellectuals and Intellectual Subcultures
Exploring Cultural Laxity: The American Case
• Cultural Innovation and Laissez Faire • Differentiation in Classification Systems •
Formalism and Loose Boundedness • My Friends Are Boring and I Love Them: Anti
Intellectualism and Anticosmopolitanism as Reverse Cultural Discrimination
Conclusion
Chapter five
EXPLAINING NATIONAL DIFFERENCES 129
National Patterns in Boundary Work
Explaining Differences
• Historical National Repertoires • The Influence of Sectors of Cultural Production
and Diffusion • Remote Environmental Conditions • Proximate Environmental Factors
Conclusion
Chapter Six
THE NATURE OF INTERNAL CUSS BOUNDARIES 150
Social and Cultural Specialists and For Profit Workers
• Profit Making and Boundary Work • Patterns of Exclusion across Occupational
Groups • National Patterns and the Dynamics of Occupational Groups
Trajectories and Seniority in the Upper Middle Class
• Tfee Upwardly and the Downwardly Mobile • A Foot in Both Worlds . The First
viii TABLE OF CONTENTS
Generation Upper Middle Class Members • Solidly Upper Middle Class: The Third
Generation and Beyond
Conclusion
Chapter Seven
IMPLICATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS, AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS 174
Class Cultures and the Reproduction of Inequality
Differentiation, Hierarchy, and the Politics of Meaning
Theoretical Reassessments
• Rational Choice, Marxist and Structuralist Theories • French Social Theory: The
Contribution of Pierre Bourdieu
Synthesis and Agenda
Appendix I
SURVEYING THE FRENCH AND AMERICAN UPPER MIDDLE CLASSES 193
Introduction
Comparing Social Positions
Comparing Social Groups
Appendix II
THE RESEARCH SITES 205
Site Selection
The Four Sites
Appendix III
RESEARCH PROCEDURES 217
Sampling Procedures
Interviewing Procedures
Data Analysis
Appendix IV
RANKING OF RESPONDENTS ON THE CULTURAL, MORAL, AND
SOCIOECONOMIC DIMENSIONS 225
Notes 233
Bibliography 287
Index 3 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS ix
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spelling | Lamont, Michèle 1957- Verfasser (DE-588)172604559 aut Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class Michèle Lamont Chicago u.a. Univ. of Chicago Press 1992 XXIX, 320 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Morality and society Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United States and France, Michele Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the upper-middle class - the managers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and experts at the center of power in society. Her book is a subtle, textured description of how these men define the values and attitudes they consider essential in separating themselves - and their class - from everyone else. For Lamont, the boundaries of class are not marked by economics alone. She goes beyond crude categories of status and simple measures of taste, wealth, and possessions to reveal the role of moral and cultural distinctions in setting the boundaries between the upper-middle class and those above and below. Central to her analysis - and to the identity of the men she interviewed - is the idea of a virtuous or worthy person: members of the upper-middle class constantly define themselves and others by making distinctions along this moral dimension. There are important differences, however, within the upper-middle class and between national cultures. Living in a cosmopolitan city like New York or Paris is different than living in a more provincial center like Indianapolis or Clermont-Ferrand; those working in the profit sector hold very different values than do those working for nonprofit organizations; and American men place more emphasis on financial success than do their French counterparts, who value personal integrity and cultural refinement more. Unprecedented in its comparative reach, Money, Morals, and Manners is an ambitious and sophisticated attempt to illuminate the nature of social class in modern society. For all those who downplay the importance of unequal social groups, it will be a revelation. Clase media - Francia - Aspectos morales y éticos - Estudios culturales comparados Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - France - Études transculturelles Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Cultuur gtt Middenklassen gtt Moraal gtt Valeurs sociales - France - Études transculturelles Valeurs sociales - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Valores sociales - EE.UU - Estudios culturales comparados Valores sociales - Francia - Estudios culturales comparados Waarden gtt Ethik Kultur Middle class Moral and ethical aspects France Cross-cultural studies Middle class Moral and ethical aspects United States Cross-cultural studies Social values France Cross-cultural studies Social values United States Cross-cultural studies Oberer Mittelstand (DE-588)4209370-3 gnd rswk-swf Internationaler Vergleich (DE-588)4120509-1 gnd rswk-swf Mann (DE-588)4037363-0 gnd rswk-swf Frankreich USA USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf Frankreich (DE-588)4018145-5 gnd rswk-swf Frankreich (DE-588)4018145-5 g Oberer Mittelstand (DE-588)4209370-3 s USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g DE-604 Mann (DE-588)4037363-0 s DE-188 Internationaler Vergleich (DE-588)4120509-1 s HBZ Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=004243658&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
spellingShingle | Lamont, Michèle 1957- Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class Clase media - Francia - Aspectos morales y éticos - Estudios culturales comparados Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - France - Études transculturelles Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Cultuur gtt Middenklassen gtt Moraal gtt Valeurs sociales - France - Études transculturelles Valeurs sociales - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Valores sociales - EE.UU - Estudios culturales comparados Valores sociales - Francia - Estudios culturales comparados Waarden gtt Ethik Kultur Middle class Moral and ethical aspects France Cross-cultural studies Middle class Moral and ethical aspects United States Cross-cultural studies Social values France Cross-cultural studies Social values United States Cross-cultural studies Oberer Mittelstand (DE-588)4209370-3 gnd Internationaler Vergleich (DE-588)4120509-1 gnd Mann (DE-588)4037363-0 gnd |
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title | Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class |
title_auth | Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class |
title_exact_search | Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class |
title_full | Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class Michèle Lamont |
title_fullStr | Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class Michèle Lamont |
title_full_unstemmed | Money, morals, and manners the culture of the French and American upper-middle class Michèle Lamont |
title_short | Money, morals, and manners |
title_sort | money morals and manners the culture of the french and american upper middle class |
title_sub | the culture of the French and American upper-middle class |
topic | Clase media - Francia - Aspectos morales y éticos - Estudios culturales comparados Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - France - Études transculturelles Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Cultuur gtt Middenklassen gtt Moraal gtt Valeurs sociales - France - Études transculturelles Valeurs sociales - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Valores sociales - EE.UU - Estudios culturales comparados Valores sociales - Francia - Estudios culturales comparados Waarden gtt Ethik Kultur Middle class Moral and ethical aspects France Cross-cultural studies Middle class Moral and ethical aspects United States Cross-cultural studies Social values France Cross-cultural studies Social values United States Cross-cultural studies Oberer Mittelstand (DE-588)4209370-3 gnd Internationaler Vergleich (DE-588)4120509-1 gnd Mann (DE-588)4037363-0 gnd |
topic_facet | Clase media - Francia - Aspectos morales y éticos - Estudios culturales comparados Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - France - Études transculturelles Classes moyennes - Aspect moral - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Cultuur Middenklassen Moraal Valeurs sociales - France - Études transculturelles Valeurs sociales - États-Unis - Études transculturelles Valores sociales - EE.UU - Estudios culturales comparados Valores sociales - Francia - Estudios culturales comparados Waarden Ethik Kultur Middle class Moral and ethical aspects France Cross-cultural studies Middle class Moral and ethical aspects United States Cross-cultural studies Social values France Cross-cultural studies Social values United States Cross-cultural studies Oberer Mittelstand Internationaler Vergleich Mann Frankreich USA |
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