Titlebook: Seeking the American Dream; A Sociological Inqui Robert C. Hauhart Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 American

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Antecedents,atisfied with their lot in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, embarking on a journey to the New World seeking better conditions. Although historical accounts have often been interpreted to distinguish between the religious motivations ascribed to founders of the Massachusetts colony as agai

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Early Sociological Investigations of the American Dream,how Americans lived, with special attention to the burgeoning urban environments that marked the era. W.E.B. Du Bois’ study of the Philadelphia Negro, Jane Addams’ investigations of urban Chicago around her settlement house, and Thomas and Znaniecki’s examination of Polish immigrant families here an

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Sociological Studies of American Life in the 1920s,tream American sociology was also drawn to divergent styles. Pitirim Sorokin of Harvard wrote his seminal . in an attempt to generalize about patterns of inequality and ranking in society, establishing the groundwork for studies in social stratification ever since. Robert and Helen Lynd, invited to

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The American Dream in the Great Depression, returned to re-examine the community in 1935. At about the same time, in Newburyport, MA, W. Lloyd Warner and his colleagues investigated the effects of class on how Americans live and think about their lives. As the Depression began to lift, Robert Merton theorized about the impact of the success

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The American Dream Critically Examined,’s direction. Spawned in the heat of a changing, discordant social landscape, sociological works of this era pointedly challenged the foundations of American life and, directly and indirectly, the aspirational tenets embedded in the American Dream. Henry, in ., revealed in pungent terms the debilita

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The American Dream in a Diminished Economy,the American Dream. As Newman documented in her influential studies, middle-class Americans—who had come to expect prosperity as a birthright—suffered social dislocation and disenchantment as the economy they had come to depend on undermined their way of life. Bluestone and Harrison, for their part,

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Contemporary Twenty-First Century Assessments of the American Dream,able trend, and desirable state, among many in middle-class American life. Deseriewicz focused on the upward striving, conformist collegians at elite American universities and recoiled at their narrow, economic driven-ness. Rank and his colleagues, adopting a more traditional sociological approach,