Happy holidays to him!

Find an eclectic and inspired collection of gift ideas to suit his every wish with Gifts.coms list of top Christmas gifts for men. Deliciousgourmet gift baskets, exhilarating experience gifts like flying lessons or driving a race car, and 2013s coolest new electronics are featured along with some old favorites like the golf club drink dispenser and classic scents. Be sure to check out the Gifts.com holiday gift finder as well as ourpersonalized holiday gift ideas for him. Everyone's favorite pop-culture extravaganza premiered last night, the MTV's Video Music Awards 2011 to distract us all from our weather worries. The stars were out in full force, decked out in the usual bells and whistles. Sadly, no meat dress this year.While there were certainly quite a few big reveals, Beyonce's new baby bump, the Gaga and Britney Spears almost-kiss, whatever Nicki Minaj was wearing, most of the nominees and hosts kept... Read More Happy 30th Anniversary MTV! Before Snooki and the rest of the reality stars took over the network, MTV stood for Music Television. After celebrating it's 30th Birthday yesterday, we can all fondly look back on what the network used to be. After years of wondering when "the music died", the network has been making efforts to bring back some of their original programming to lure back their one-time fans and maybe prove to their new fans, they're more than just Teen... Read More
The appellation "self-made man" or "self-made woman" describes a person who was born poor or otherwise disadvantaged, but who achieved great economic success thanks to their own hard work and ingenuity rather than to any inherited fortune, family connections or other privilege. In the cultural history of the United States, the idea of the self-made man, an "essential American figure", looms large. It has been described as an archetype, a cultural ideal, a myth or a cult.
[1]

Bibliography[edit]

Cawelti, John G. (1988). Apostles of the self-made man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226098708.

Wyllie, Irvin G. (1966). The self-made man in America: the myth of rags to riches. Free Press.

References[edit]
1. Jump up^ Pendergast, Tom (2000). Creating the modern man: American magazines and consumer culture, 1900-1950. Columbia, Mo.: Univ. of Missouri Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780826212801.

See also[edit]

Autodidacticism Social class

This sociology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Categories: