false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976621m/3928603.jpg 3928603 3 Our daily lives have changed, slowly but radically, over the past three decades. The division between work and home has been all but demolished; our weightless, wireless economy encourages us to work 24/7; marketing has invaded the most intimate aspects of our lives; leisure has become a lost art. Dalton Conley, the preeminent social scientist, a writer of exceptional originality and vigor, provides us with an X-ray view of our new social reality. In <i>Elsewhere, U.S.A.</i>, Conley connects our daily experience with relatively invisible sociological changes: women&#8217;s increasing participation in the labor force; rising economic inequality generating anxiety among successful professionals; the individualism of the modern era--the belief in self-expression--being replaced by the need to play different roles in the various realms of one&#8217;s existence.<br><br>In this groundbreaking book, Conley offers an essential understanding of how the technologic, social, and economic changes that have reshaped our world are also reshaping our individual lives. 3974122 13 1 2009 Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety total:79|5:4|4:31|3:28|2:12|1:4| 79 256 241 24 3 0 false false Wed Apr 15 12:44:24 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:44:24 -0700 2009 A busy professional with an equally busy spouse -- he is Chair of New York University's Sociology Department; his wife is experimental designer Natalie Jeremijenko -- Dalton Conley lives the multiple lives he describes. Most critics think he has honed a forward-looking book that successfully combine...

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"This constant fear of being exposed, cut out, or outsourced, and thereby having one's 'capital' rendered valueless, is the principal pathos of the era."

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