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Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray Their Lives
Platon Coutsoukis
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Description for Gospels of Wealth: How the Rich Portray Their Lives
Paperback. Contains recollections by wealthy individuals about their lives and experiences, demonstrating how financial and religious aspects of their lives unfold and often intertwine. This text develops a sociology of wealth that goes beyond conventional, power-elite, Marxist and status-group theories. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: BG; HPQ; HRC; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
There is fascination and suspicion about the wealthy. Yet there is a dearth of material in which the wealthy speak for themselves about the meaning of their lives. Gospels of Wealth provides such narrative material. This book is a novel venture in social science. It is the first book to have a broad range of wealthy individuals recount their lives in detail, and, importantly, the first to formulate a sociology of wealth that goes beyond conventional, power-elite, Marxist, and status-group theories. The authors begin with an analytical framework for studying the biographical narratives of the wealthy. Next, 12 contemporary ... Read more
There is fascination and suspicion about the wealthy. Yet there is a dearth of material in which the wealthy speak for themselves about the meaning of their lives. Gospels of Wealth provides such narrative material. This book is a novel venture in social science. It is the first book to have a broad range of wealthy individuals recount their lives in detail, and, importantly, the first to formulate a sociology of wealth that goes beyond conventional, power-elite, Marxist, and status-group theories. The authors begin with an analytical framework for studying the biographical narratives of the wealthy. Next, 12 contemporary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780275950941
SKU
V9780275950941
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About Platon Coutsoukis
PAUL G. SCHERVISH is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Welfare Research Institute at Boston College. PLATON E. COUTSOUKIS is a research associate in the Social Welfare Research Institute at Boston College. ETHAN LEWIS is Assistant Professor of English at Sangamon State University.
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