Rush is happy/excited about a book that points out vast inequality [View all]

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The catch is this book claims that the inequality in America is NOT economic but cultural.

According to this book, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010", the wealthy are in touch with core values while the poor have lost their way. The book focuses only on white people, allegedly avoiding the charge of racism.

It almost seems to acknowledge class (the author correlates income levels with degree of "values&quot , but then claims that values determine income levels, so the solution is to teach people values, (which is the root cause), and there is no need to address income inequality (which is determined by values).

I believe this is what is called "bourgeois sociology". I always thought those labels (bourgeois economics, bourgeois history, etc) were overdoing it a bit - but here is a case of a book that appears to be empirical science yet it is clearly done to validate conservative ideology and maintain the economic inequality generating systemic status quo.