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Jay MacLeod's account of how American life looks from the bottom - of anticipated immobility rather than mobility- addresses one of the most important questions in modern social theory and policy: How is class inequality reproduced over generations?
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About the Author
A Rhodes scholar, Jay MacLeod holds degrees in social studies and theology. He and his wife, Sally Asher, spent four years in Mississippi, where their work with local teenagers led to the publication of Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Rural South, An Oral History (WestviewPress). MacLeod is now an Anglican priest in Chesterfield, a declining mining and market town in Asher's native England.
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MacLeod documents the lack of aspirations of a low-level income groupa neighborhood gang he calls the Hallway Hangersfor upward socioeconomic mobility. This predominantly white group is contrasted to the Brothers, a rival gang composed of blacks. MacLeod collected significant primary data while living among these inner city youths. His work centers on social reproduction theory, i.e., the factors "that contribute to an intergenerational transmission of social inequality," which result is the status quo outlook of the Hallway Hangers. MacLeod's descriptive narrative includes vivid and graphic examples of conversations and interviews with gang members. With its first-hand perspective and sociological theory, this book is recommended for academic and larger public libraries. Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., Ala.
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- PublisherWestview Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0813371635
- ISBN 13 9780813371634
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages198
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