Rachel Sherman
Autor(a) de Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
About the Author
Rachel Sherman teaches sociology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels.
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Obras por Rachel Sherman
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 12: Unpublished, Unknown, and/or Unbelievable (2003) — Contribuidor — 283 exemplares
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- Obras
- 5
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- 2
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- 165
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- 3.8
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- 6
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- 13
Critiques moral judgment of people as "good" or "bad" rich based on how they spend, think, and inhabit their wealth (good = prudent, hardworking, and nice people, bad= ostentation, lazy, and entitled). Sherman shows that a focus on such moral distinction legitimates the income inequality and resource distribution problems that result in these uber wealthy. It doesn't matter how they spend their money, they have more than their fair share of the pie.… (mais)