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Author Best, Joel.

Title Everyone's a winner : life in our congratulatory culture / Joel Best.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011
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 Moore Stacks  HN90.S6 B47 2011    Available  ---
Description ix, 199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note "Simpson imprint in humanities".
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Life in an era of status abundance -- Prize proliferation -- Honoring students -- Everyday heroes -- Ranking and rating -- The significance of congratulatory culture.
Summary Looks at the increasing abundance of status in our society and considers its effects, including the tendency to split into ever more specific groups to enhance status.
Subject Social status -- United States.
Social status.
United States.
Equality -- United States.
Equality.
Motivation (Psychology) -- United States.
Motivation (Psychology)
United States -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
United States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
ISBN 9780520267169 cloth alkaline paper
0520267168 cloth alkaline paper

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