ANTH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pg. 99, Cape May, New Jersey, Conflicting Emotions
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Events in order of which they occur: upward mobility in the united states has also stagnated as class inequalities have expanded (pg. 90: the path of individual upward mobility may be strewn with conflicting emotions, painful shifts in relationships with family and friends, and disorienting conflicts of identity (pg. 90: author discovered her class position in grammar school (pg. 90: the author"s families upward mobility was felt through strong unions and high wages, while hers was felt through a form of education that brought her out of a community in which she was raised (pg. 91: attempts to escape" by applying for a girl"s boarding school (pg. 92: the author made her escape" on her 16th birthday after her family doctor insisted she go to exeter boarding school (pg. 92: ethnography is about learning to draw close- and be close- to others while simultaneously being able to stand back and analyze with a critical eye (pg.