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The Success Ethic, Education, and the American Dream
Joseph L. DeVitisJohn Martin Rich
出版State University of New York Press, 1996-07-03
主題Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN14384010789781438401072
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=exlZOEGpdpcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Success Ethic, Education, and the American Dream analyzes, interprets, and critically evaluates various success ethics and their impact on American culture and education. It also formulates new models of the success ethic for the future. The quest for success propels persons down diverse life paths as they seek the American Dream. In this quest, informal education follows the blandishments of self-improvement formulas that promise wealth, mobility, status, and respect.

Self-improvement literature, which began in America with Benjamin Franklin, proliferated in the nineteenth century and has since developed a number of different genres. Earlier studies provided nineteenth- and early twentieth-century embodiments of the success ethic and biographical material, but neglected many important figures and offered largely uncritical presentations. This book identifies and explores the contributions of these neglected figures and critically assesses the different success ethics from three perspectives: psychological, philosophical, and social.