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American Society: How It Really Works by Erik Olin Wright, Joel Rogers

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4.0

Built on a foundation of empirical evidence and theoretical analysis, the authors explore American principles of fairness, efficiency, and freedom, contrasting their idealization with the ways capitalism, inequality and democracy actually manifest to create social dilemmas that stand in opposition to these values. An engaging, well written sociological examination of US Society
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