@article{ref1,
title="From 'having' to 'being': self-worth and the current crisis of American society",
journal="British journal of sociology",
year="2019",
author="Lamont, Michèle",
volume="70",
number="3",
pages="660-707",
abstract="With growing inequality, the American dream is becoming less effective as a collective myth. With its focus on material success, competition and self-reliance, the intensified diffusion of neoliberal scripts of the self is leading the upper-middle class toward a mental health crisis while the working class and low-income groups do not have the resources needed to live the dream. African Americans, Latinos and undocumented immigrants, who are presumed to lack self-reliance, face more rigid boundaries. One possible way forward is broadening cultural membership by promoting new narratives of hope centered on a plurality of criteria of worth, ?ordinary universalism? and destigmatizing stigmatized groups.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0007-1315",
doi="10.1111/1468-4446.12667",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12667"
}