Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

Moving Up without Losing Your Way

The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility

By
Jennifer Morton
Jennifer Morton
2019 • 190 pages

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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42 books

Education

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Robot-Proof
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Despite the Best Intentions
Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education
The Ambitious Elementary School: Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality

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14 books

Philosophy

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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
The Emperor's New Mind
Sorting Things Out
Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics
The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

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20 books

Inequality

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Winners Take All
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The Privileged Poor
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy

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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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109 books

Capitalism

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Take Back Your Family: From the Tyrants of Burnout, Busyness, Individualism, and the Nuclear Ideal
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Bait and Switch
Had I Known
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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Economics

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Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Years That Matter Most How College Makes or Breaks Us
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
A Participatory Economy

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56 books

Moral Philosophy

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Honouring and Admiring the Immoral: An Ethical Guide
Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
War Is a Racket
Neuroexistentialism