Jay Macleod

Ain't No Makin' It (eBook, PDF)

Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Third Edition

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Produktbeschreibung

This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. With the original 1987 publication of Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod brought us to the Clarendon Heights housing project where we met the 'Brothers' and the 'Hallway Hangers'. Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic stereotypes. MacLeod's return eight years later, and the resulting 1995 revision, revealed little improvement in the lives of these men as they struggled in the labor market and crime-ridden underground economy. The third edition of this classic ethnography of social reproduction brings the story of inequality and social mobility into today's dialogue. Now fully updated with thirteen new interviews from the original Hallway Hangers and Brothers, as well as new theoretical analysis and comparison to the original conclusions, Ain't No Makin' It remains an admired and invaluable text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429964008
• Artikelnr.: 54155001

Autorenporträt

Jay MacLeod

Inhaltsangabe

Preface (new, from the author)
Acknowledgements
Part One The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers as Teenagers
1 Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity
2 Social Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: Schooled by Social Class
Pierre Bourdieu: Cultural Capital and Habitus
Basil Bernstein and Shirley Brice Heath: Linguistic Cultural Capital
Paul Willis: The Lads and the Ear'oles
Henry Giroux: Student Resistance to School
Social Reproduction in Clarendon Heights
3 Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers
The Hallway Hangers: "You Gotta Be Bad"
The Brothers: Conspicuous by Their Conventionality
4 The Influence of the Family
The Hallway Hangers' Households
The Brothers' Families
5 The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers
The Hallway Hangers: Keeping a Lid on Hope
The Brothers: Ready at the Starting Line
6 School: Preparing for the Competition
The Brothers: Conformity and Compliance
The Hallway Hangers: Teacher's Nightmare
The Underlying Logic of Student Behavior
7 Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll
The Hallway Hangers: Internalizing Probabilities, Rescuing Self-Esteem
The Brothers: Internalizing Failure, Shorn of Self-Esteem
The Sources of Variation
8 Reproduction Theory Reconsidered
Building on Bourdieu
From Ethnography to Theory
Individuals in the Social Landscape
Cultural Autonomy Within Structural Constraints
Part Two Eight Years Later: Low Income, Low Outcome
9 The Hallway Hangers: Dealing in Despair
On the Job
Working the Street
Producing Themselves
10 The Brothers: Dreams Deferred
Shortchanged on the Labor Market
Sold on School
Aspiration and Outcome: What Went Wrong?
Groping for the Good Life
11 Conclusion: Outclassed and Outcast(e)
Poverty: A Class Issue
Racial Domination: Invidious but Invisible
Race Versus Class: Can They Be Untangled?
Structure Versus Agency: "No One to Blame but Me"
What Is to Be Done?
Class Dismissed
Part Three: Ain't No Makin' It? Returning to the Hallway Hangers and Brothers
Introduction from Jay MacLeod: The Hangers and Brothers revisited
12 The Hallway Hangers: Fighting for a Foothold at Forty
Chris
Shorty
Stoney
Frankie
Slick
Jinx
Steve
13 The Brothers: Barely Making It
Each will have a brief intro from Jay
Derek
Mokey
Juan
James
Mike
Super
14 Making Sense of the Stories, by Katherine McClelland (Franklin & Marshall College) and David Karen (Bryn Mawr College)
The Family Trees
Appendix A: On the Making of Ain't No Makin' It?
Fieldwork: Doubts, Dilemmas, and Discoveries
Second Harvest: Notes on the 1991 Field Experience
Part Three Fieldwork: Return to Clarendon Heights
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Bibliography
About the Book and Author
Index.