Bobos in Paradise
by David Brooks
Brooks's 2000 comic sociology of the bourgeois bohemians: the educated class that merged 1960s values with 1980s money, their consumption, work and spirituality. Funny and prescient about the professional class.
Read it if…
you want to laugh at and understand the educated upper-middle class, including yourself.
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Skip it if…
you want current analysis; it is a period piece now.
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Three things you will actually use
- Taste signals class.
- Values and money reconciled uneasily.
- Self-awareness is the start.
Do this first
Read the chapter on consumption and check your own kitchen.
Our verdict
Funny period sociology.
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