"Gamers," Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart: The United States since 1965

by Alfred Claassen PhD

Overview

Gamers, Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart is the first book to pull together the central features of the American society, character, and history of the global era and its immediate aftermath into a single, powerful, comprehensive, and coherent picture. Seamlessly interdisciplinary, it looks at all facets of recent American society and history as reflecting first the global liberal paradigm that reigned from 1965 until 2016, and then the incipient paradigms that have competed during the years of crisis since. It is the first book to pull together the central features of American society, character, and history since 1965 into a single comprehensive and coherent picture that dissents from key aspects of the long-dominant paradigm. Gamers, Multiculturalists, and the Great Coming Apart describes and extensively analyzes the gamers, the fascinating new upper class that has risen to dominance in this country as in most others during the last half century. It also analyzes the character and circumstances of the middle class, working class, and underclass, laying bare the profound, many-sided conflict between the gamers and the middle and working classes. It also examines the

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634243377
Publisher:	Trine Day
Publication date:	12/04/2020
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Alfred Claassen is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has been published in professional journals.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I The Condition of Globalization

1 The Pax Americana: The World under U.S. Leadership 7

2 Global Capitalism 31

Part II Coming Apart in Five Dimensions

3 The Advent of Multiculturalism 79

4 The Rise of the Gamers 91

5 Democracy Embraced, Contested, and Exploited 105

6 Devasted Community 145

7 Embattled Morality 181

Part III The Return of Paradigm Conflict since 2016 amid the Crisis of Democracy

8 Trump's American Restoration Meets Asymmetric Top-Gamer Resistance 223

Epilogue: The Historical Context that is Never Provided 249

Bibliography 261

Notes 273

Index 289

Acknowledgements 305