Happiness is the goal of American dream; a means to reach happiness wealth; in following turn, wealth cannot be gained without optimism, opportunities, and hard work. Meanwhile, massive use conceptual metaphor raises question whether all domains, namely work, wealth, were expressed Great Gatsby whose theme dream. The data collection technique was document analysis. differentiated from non-data,...

In approaching a topic as slippery as the “American Dream,” let alone its future, I will borrow from the famous turn-of-thecentury German Sociologist Georg Simmel’s discussion of the relativity of reality. Reality, he said, is a function of distance. If you walk through a forest, for example, the trees are real but the forest is not (because you can see each tree but not the entire forest), but...

This paper is a critical analysis of recent US policy to promote low-income homeownership. It examines the ideology and assumptions buttressing this policy, evidence on the effects of low-income homeownership and the viability of homeownership as a strategy for low-income families. Evidence suggests that the prospect for sustained growth in low-income homeownership may be limited. Research does...