Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published May 3, 2000 by Simon & Schuster.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-684-85377-2
- OCLC Number:
- 42952723
- ASIN:
- 0684853779
- Goodreads:
- 567710
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It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.
But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the counter- cultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They …
It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the bourgeois were the enterprising yuppies of the 1980s.
But now the bohemian and the bourgeois are all mixed up, as David Brooks explains in this brilliant description of upscale culture in America. It is hard to tell an espresso-sipping professor from a cappuccino-gulping banker. Laugh and sob as you read about the information age economy's new dominant class. Marvel at their attitudes toward morality, sex, work, and lifestyle, and at how the members of this new elite have combined the values of the counter- cultural sixties with those of the achieving eighties. These are the people who set the tone for society today, for you. They are bourgeois bohemians: Bobos.
Subjects
- Social Mobility
- Sociology - General
- Popular Culture
- Upper class
- Current Affairs
- Sociology
- Humor
- Social conditions
- Popular Culture - General
- General
- Social Science / Popular Culture
- Social classes
- Social history
- United States
- American
- Elite (Social sciences)