The American Dream in the Information Age

By Otto Newman and Richard De Zoysa

Book Overview

America's current transformation from an industrial to a new information-based culture presents new challenges as well as new perspectives on old debates. This book offers a comprehensive survey of America's changing values. It examines notions of American exceptionalism and how the 'melting pot' is coping with race relations and changing demographics; it assesses the agenda of government, the domestic and global constraints, and how social exclusion can be tackled. Current changes in the US are likely to be a harbinger for other societies, and the authors examine new models of civic society, of learning and of reconfiguring social values for a fast-changing world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349407550
• ISBN13: 9781349407552
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"