Anxieties of Entitlement : Elite Common Sense about Merit and Moral Worth / Rachel Sherman in Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques [Périodique électronique], 1, vol. 51 (2020)  

Public ISBD [article]  inRecherches sociologiques et anthropologiques [Périodique électronique] > 1, vol. 51 (2020) . - p. 61-86 Titre : Anxieties of Entitlement : Elite Common Sense about Merit and Moral Worth Type de document : document électronique Auteurs : Rachel Sherman Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : p. 61-86 Note générale : Issu du dossier : "Nouvelles directions dans les recherches sur la distinction sociale" Langues : Français (fre) Mots-clés : Classes sociales  Valeurs (philosophie)  Reconnaissance sociale Résumé : "Despite the rise of the “moral economy” as a frame for analyzing increasing inequality, few scholars have explored the moral dimensions of elites’ experience and interpretations of their own privilege. Based on in-depth interviews with 50 affluent New York parents, this paper focuses on how they manage the peculiar concept of “entitlement”. In U.S. political culture, this concept links individuals’ dispositions and behaviors to whether they deserve resources, as studies of welfare recipients have established. I argue that a similar analysis is needed for elites. These privileged actors want to interpret themselves as legitimately deserving of (i.e., entitled to) their social advantages, which means not being “entitled” in a behavioral and dispositional sense. They cast legitimate entitlement as depending upon moral worth in three areas: hard work, reasonable consumption, and “giving back”. They also feel a strong obligation to raise children who share the se values. In invoking these criteria of worth, affluent respondents primarily attach themselves to the symbolically-worthy American middle class. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this relationship between dispositions and distributions justifies inequality." En ligne : https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/3878 Permalink : ./index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97889 [article] Anxieties of Entitlement : Elite Common Sense about Merit and Moral Worth [document électronique] / Rachel Sherman . - 2020 . - p. 61-86. Issu du dossier : "Nouvelles directions dans les recherches sur la distinction sociale" Langues : Français (fre) in Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques [Périodique électronique] > 1, vol. 51 (2020) . - p. 61-86 Mots-clés : Classes sociales  Valeurs (philosophie)  Reconnaissance sociale Résumé : "Despite the rise of the “moral economy” as a frame for analyzing increasing inequality, few scholars have explored the moral dimensions of elites’ experience and interpretations of their own privilege. Based on in-depth interviews with 50 affluent New York parents, this paper focuses on how they manage the peculiar concept of “entitlement”. In U.S. political culture, this concept links individuals’ dispositions and behaviors to whether they deserve resources, as studies of welfare recipients have established. I argue that a similar analysis is needed for elites. These privileged actors want to interpret themselves as legitimately deserving of (i.e., entitled to) their social advantages, which means not being “entitled” in a behavioral and dispositional sense. They cast legitimate entitlement as depending upon moral worth in three areas: hard work, reasonable consumption, and “giving back”. They also feel a strong obligation to raise children who share the se values. In invoking these criteria of worth, affluent respondents primarily attach themselves to the symbolically-worthy American middle class. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this relationship between dispositions and distributions justifies inequality." En ligne : https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/3878 Permalink : ./index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97889

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