Uneasy Street

The Anxieties of Affluence

Rachel Sherman

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Princeton University Press
14 May 2019

Popular culture; Social classes; Urban communities; Sociology

A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV's ""real housewives"" to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on ""easy street""? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers-from hedge fund financiers and artists to stay-at-home mothers-to examine their lifestyle choices and understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us.

By: Rachel Sherman
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm,
ISBN: 9780691191904
ISBN 10: 0691191905
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 14 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Sherman teaches sociology at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels.

Reviews for Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence

“We don’t know as much about affluent people as we think we do. Caricatures abound, but the socioeconomically lucky don’t often offer themselves up for study. That all changed with Rachel Sherman’s Uneasy Street. . . . With each reading, I’m a little more unsettled, in the best possible way.”—Ron Lieber, New York Times “There have been many cogent analyses of income inequality. Sociologist Rachel Sherman’s welcome addition probes the psychology and socio-economics of affluence.”—Barb Kiser, Nature “Sherman takes a dispassionate approach to find out how those who are `benefitting from rising economic inequality’ experience `their own social advantages.’ She elicits her subjects’ thoughts about work and productivity, charitable giving, marital discord and more. Worthwhile humanizing ensues, as do plenty of squirm-inducing moments.”—John Williams, New York Times Book Review “Sherman offers something new and surprising: a look inside the 1 per cent’s minds. . . . She shifts our understanding of today’s dominant class.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times