Bobos in Paradise  -  David Brooks

the new upper class and how they got there

KORTE INHOUD

The word bobo, Brooks' most famously used term, is an abbreviated form of the words bourgeois and bohemian, suggesting a fusion of two distinct social classes (the counter-cultural, hedonistic and artistic bohemian, and the white collar, capitalist bourgeois). The term is used by Brooks to describe the 1990s successors of the yuppies. Often of the corporate upper class, they claim highly tolerant views of others, purchase expensive and exotic items, and believe American society to be meritocratic. The term ...
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2001 Uitgever: Touchstone 284 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0684853787 ISBN-13: 9780684853789