Author: Adrie Kusserow
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: neighborhoods, culture, mind, society, three, class, individualisms, child, rearing, social, american
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-07-16
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 1403964807
ISBN-13: 9781403964809

What are hard and soft individualisms? In this detailed ethnography of three communities in Manhattan and Queens, Kusserow interviews parents and teachers (from wealthy to those on welfare) on the types of hard and soft individualisms they encourage in their children and students. American Individualisms explores the important issue of class differences in the socialization of individualism in America. It presents American individualism not as one single homogeneous, stereotypic life-pattern as often claimed to be, but as variable, class-differentiated models of individualism instilled in youn