| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part One: The Great Paradox; 1. Traveling to the Heart; 2. "One Thing Good"; 3. The Rememberers; 4. The Candidates; 5. The "Least Resistant Personality"; Part Two: The Social Terrain; 6. Industry: "The Buckle in America's Energy Belt"; 7. The State: Governing the Market 4,000 Feet Below; 8. The Pulpit and the Press: "The Topic Doesn't Come Up"; Part Three: The Deep Story and the People in It; 9. The Deep Story; 10. The Team Player: Loyalty Above All; 11. The Worshipper: Invisible Renunciation; 12. The Cowboy: Stoicism |
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13. The Rebel: A Team Loyalist with a New CausePart Four: Going National; 14. The Fires of History: The 1860s and the 1960s; 15. Strangers No Longer: The Power of Promise; 16. "They Say There Are Beautiful Trees"; Acknowledgments; Appendix A: The Research; Appendix B: Politics and Pollution: National Discoveries from ToxMap; Appendix C: Fact-Checking Common Impressions; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country-a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets-among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident-people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Conservatism -- United States
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Liberalism -- United States
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Right and left (Political science)
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Ideology -- Political aspects -- United States
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Political sociology
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Right and left (Political science)
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Politics and government
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Political sociology
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Liberalism
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Ideology -- Political aspects
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Conservatism
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781620972267 |
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1620972263 |
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