PSY427H1 Lecture Notes - Unique Selling Proposition, Funhouse, Narrowcasting
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That many of us marginalized and oftentimes invisible americans of. African, asian, latino and native descent, as well as women and the working poor never quite melted and metamorphosized according to this traditional prescription for social progress hardly mattered. The great distance between the dream and our actual lives was not due to any fault in the dream: the defect was in us. The dream thus survived intact, its seductive power sustained by america"s stubborn refusal to look too closely at the hidden but terrible costs of the good life and at who actually could much less wanted to---afford it -riggs (1992) Riggs: many of us marginalized and oftentimes invisible americans of. African etc: the crux of the critique for many people is a political one, fear is that if you try to transmute a social problem that is distinctive to a particular group into something that can be resolved.
