The term “community” often engenders feelings of longing, togetherness, and social connectedness. Yet in practice, there is a great deal of evidence that Americans have become increasingly distrustful of public institutions and each other, especially across lines of race, class, and political affiliation. This chapter will examine the causes and consequences of growing disengagement from institutions. I will focus on variation in levels of distrust and disconnectedness across social class in particular. I also examine Americans’ turn to the market to meet the needs once met by informal and formal community organizations, and discuss this shift in terms of its consequences for inequality and social mobility.

Note de lecture sur Ruben Gaztambide-Fernández, The best of the best. Becoming elite at an American boarding school et Shamus Khan, Privilege. The making of an adolescent elite at St. Paul's schoo

Note de lecture sur Ruben Gaztambide-Fernández, The best of the best. Becoming elite at an American boarding school et Shamus Khan, Privilege. The making of an adolescent elite at St. Paul's schoo

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