Poor Richard's Principle

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Poor Richard's Principle	p. 2
Introduction The Question of Moral Restraint	p. 3
The Unrealized American Dream	p. 15
Having It All-and Wanting More: the Social Symptoms of Cultural Distress	p. 17
Making Choices: from Short-Term Adjustments to Principled Lives	p. 37
Moral Tradition: the Lost Ambivalence in American Culture	p. 59
The Cultural Construction of Material Life	p. 83
Shifting Perspectives: the Decoupling of Work and Money	p. 85
Accounts: the Changing Meanings of White-Collar Work	p. 105
(not) Talking About Money: the Social Sources and Personal Consequences of Subjectivization	p. 138
Getting and Spending: the Maintenance and Violation of Symbolic Boundaries	p. 169
The Working Class: Changing Conditions and Converging Perspectives	p. 206
The Precarious Sources of Human Values	p. 239
Family Life: the New Challenges of Balancing Multiple Commitments	p. 241
Rediscovering Community: the Cultural Potential of Caring Behavior and Voluntary Service	p. 265
The Quest for Spirituality: Ambiguous Voices from America's Religious Communities	p. 292
The Languages of Moral Discourse	p. 329
Materialism and Moral Restraint: the Role of Ascetic and Expressive Values	p. 331
The Possibilities of Moral Discourse: Limitations, Pathologies, and Challenges	p. 357
Methodology	p. 375
Notes	p. 377
Index	p. 427
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