A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism Kamens David H.
A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism Kamens David H. A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced…
Specifikacia A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism Kamens David H.
A New American Creed: The Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of Populism Kamens David H.
A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligations--but such obligations have since become regarded as options. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic consciousness.
Kamens takes this basic shift as his starting point for exploring numerous trends in American political culture from the 1930s to the present day. In this book, David H. Drawing on and synthesizing an enormous array of primary and secondary materials, Kamens examines the critical role of macro social changes, such as the growth and expansion of government and education, often in response to the emergence of globalization.
From these tectonic shifts erupted numerous ripple effects, such as the decline of traditional citizen values, the rise of