Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by Brooks, David
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- ISBN 10
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Simon & Schuster March 6, 2001. 2001. Softcover. 8vo softcover 284pp near fine. Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.In his bestselling work of "comic sociology," David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today's upper class -- those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation. .
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class And How They Got There is a book by David Brooks, first published in 2000. The word bobo, Brooks's most famous coinage, is a portmanteau of the words bourgeois and bohemian. The term is used by Brooks to describe the 1990s descendants of the yuppies. Often of the corporate upper class, they rarely oppose mainstream society, claim highly tolerant views of others, purchase expensive and exotic items, and believe American society to be meritocratic.
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- Title
- Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
- Author
- Brooks, David
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0684853787
- ISBN 13
- 9780684853789
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster March 6, 2001
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Sociology Bobos In Paradise The New Upper Class and How They Got There Brooks David
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