SOCIOL 3AC Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Gentrification, The Takeaway, Meritocracy
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The boys in macleod"s study both subscribe to and reject dominant achievement ideology. 6 large, squat buildings and 1 high rise. Many 2nd and 3rd generation residents multigenerational families. Characterized by predatory theft, drug dealing, and violence. If individuals don"t even aspire middle class jobs, they are unlikely to achieve them. Overall structure of class relations in one generation continues to the next generation through leveled aspirations. Leveled aspirations - you have seemingly unreachable dreams b/c you are confined to your social class that has been defined over generations -- (cid:455)ou"re aspiratio(cid:374)s have (cid:271)ee(cid:374) leveled. The social class you are born in has a massive influence on where you will end up. Social reproduction refers to the emphasis on the structures and activities that transmit social inequality from one generation to the next mechanisms through which class inequality is reproduced over generations. The belief that one reaches a socially perceived definition of success through hard work and education.
