Author: Dalton Conley
Publisher: Pantheon Books
ISBN-10: 9780375422904
Subject: Social Sciences
ISBN-13: 9780375422904
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publication Year: 2009
Condition: Like New
Put down your iPhones and BlackBerrys, dear friends, long enough to read this important book about America's new 'elsewhere society', where round-the-clock connectivity and multitasking are reshaping the most basic patterns of work, family, and values. Your guide to this brave new world commentators and scholars, and an excellent and enrtertaining writer as well. No other book compares in describing and explaining the texture of modern lives in a hypernetworked and hypermarketized world. Conley's insights might just help to rescue the 'priceless' from the credit card ads and restore it to work, family, friends, and identity, all of which are under siege in our elsewhere society.
Examining the dramatic changes that have occurred in American society over the past three decades, the author of The Pecking Order offers a thoughtful study of the new social realities of life, explaining how the social, economic, and technological transformation has reshaped individual lives.
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