Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture
Online ISBN:
9780520948488
Print ISBN:
9780520267169
Publisher:
University of California Press
Book
Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture
Published:
3 July 2011
Online ISBN:
9780520948488
Print ISBN:
9780520267169
Publisher:
University of California Press
Cite
Best, Joel, Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture (Oakland, CA , 2011; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 22 Mar. 2012), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520267169.001.0001, accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians — of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read “USA — Number 1.” Prizes proliferate in every corner of American society, and excellence is trumpeted with ratings that range from “Academy Award winner!” to “Best Neighborhood Pizza!” In this book, the author shines a bright light on the increasing abundance of status in our society and considers what it all means. He argues that status affluence fosters social worlds and, in the process, helps give meaning to life in a large society.
Keywords:
prizes, kindergarten, valedictorians, Academy Awards, status, status affluence, social worlds, society, American society
Subject
Social Research and Statistics
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