Ain't No Makin' It: Leveled Aspirations In A Low-income Neighborhood
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Author(s)Jay MacLeod
PublisherWestview Press
ISBN / ASIN0813371635
ISBN-139780813371634
Sales Rank1,122,637
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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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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