Ain't no makin' it: leveled aspirations in a low-income neighborhood

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. Contents Part One: The Hallway Hangers And The Brothers As Teenagers 1. Social Immobility In The Land Of Opportunity 2. Social Reproduction In Theoretical Perspective 3. Teenagers In Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers And The Brothers 4. The Influence Of The Family 5. The World Of Work: Aspirations Of The Hangers And Brothers 6. School: Preparing For The Competition 7. Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll 8. Reproduction Theory Reconsidered Part Two: Eight Years Later: Low Income, Low Outcome 9. The Hallway Hangers: Dealing In Despair 10. The Brothers: Dreams Deferred 11. Conclusion: Outclassed And Outcast(e) Part Three: Ain't No Makin' It? 12. The Hallway Hangers: Fighting For A Foothold At Forty 13. The Brothers: Barely Making It 14. Making Sense Of The Stories, By Katherine Mcclelland And David Karen "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. Contents Part One: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers as Teenagers 1. Social Immobility in the Land of Opportunity 2. Social Reproduction in Theoretical Perspective 3. Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: The Hallway Hangers and the Brothers 4. The Influence of the Family 5. The World of Work: Aspirations of the Hangers and Brothers 6. School: Preparing for the Competition 7. Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes Its Toll 8. Reproduction Theory ReconsideredPart Two: Eight Years Later: Low Income, Low Outcome 9. The Hallway Hangers: Dealing in Despair 10. The Brothers: Dreams Deferred 11. Conclusion: Outclassed and Outcast(e)Part Three: Ain?t No Makin? It? 12. The Hallway Hangers: Fighting for a Foothold at Forty 13. The Brothers: Barely Making It 14. Making Sense of the Stories, by Katherine McClelland and David Karen"--Provided by publisher The author immersed himself in the teenage underworld of Clarendon Heights. The Hallway Hangers, one of the neighborhood cliques, appear as cynical self-destructive hoodlums. The other group, the Brothers, take the American Dream to heart and aspire to middle-class respectability. The twist is that the Hallway Hangers are mostly white; the Brothers are almost all black. Comparing the two groups, MacLeod provides a provocative account of how poverty is perpetuated from one generation to the next. This edition retains the vivid accounts of friendships, families, school, and work that made the first edition so popular. The ethnography resonates with feeling and vivid dialogue. But the book also addressed one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy: how social inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. MacLeod links individual lives with social theory to forge a powerful argument about how inequality is created, sustained, and accepted in the United States. Author Jay MacLeod 's classic ethnography--a defining work on the cycle of social reproduction and inequality as lived through the young men from the Clarendon Heights housing project--now includes a third section that continues the lives of the original Brothers and Hallway Hangers through new interviews and analysis