Growing up working class : hidden injuries and the development of angry white men and women /: hidden injuries and the development of angry white men and women. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas J. Gorman.
• Authors: Gorman, Thomas J
• Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Photos; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Chapter 1: Introduction; Data, Theory, and the Literature; Auto-ethnography; What Is New Here?; Organization of the Book; Educational Reality: A Comparison; The Site and the Community: City Line, Brooklyn, USA; Demographic Tables; Appendix; Data Tables (by Census Tract and Year); Notes; Chapter 2: Where Does the Concrete End? The Local Context of the Hidden Injuries of Class; Beginnings: Residences, Community, and Stoops; Neighborhood Density and Apartment Layouts. The "Avenue": Its Effects on a Working-Class CommunityGangs; The Neighborhood and Race/Ethnicity; The Families: The Working Class Working Hard; The Later Years and Alcoholism; Notes; Chapter 3: Education: The Hidden Injuries of Class Begin in Earnest; Elementary School; High School; College and Beyond; Graduate School; Notes; Chapter 4: Previous Research on Education and The Hidden Injuries of Class. My Educational Career Compared; Social Class and Parental Attitudes Toward Education: Resistance and Conformity to Schooling in the Family; Literature: Disparate Explanations and Findings. Data CollectionFindings: Working-Class Parents' Attitudes Toward Education: Resistance; Notes on the Hidden Injuries of Class; Working-Class Parents' Attitudes Toward Education: Conformity; Variations on the Working-Class Theme; Middle-Class Parents' Attitudes Toward Education: Conformity and the Culture of Professionalism; Variations on the Middle-Class Theme; A Note on Gender Differences; Summary and Conclusions; References; Appendix: Demographic Breakdown of the Sample by Social Class Respondents; A Comparison of My Research to My Own Educational Career. Chapter 5: Friends, Girlfriends, and Sports: The Injuries Escalate and Become PersonalFriends; Girlfriends; Boys' and Girls' Values; Sports; Sports Research; Results; Notes; Chapter 6: Social Structure and Culture: The Macro Context; Social Institutions; Family; Child Rearing; Gender Roles; Religion; Politics; Economy; Culture; Generations; Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll; The Good Times: Benefits of Growing Up Working Class; Notes; Chapter 7: Social Media: A "Reunion" of Angry (and Not So Angry) White Working-Class Men and Women; Notes. Chapter 8: Conclusion: Hard and Settled Living and The Development of Angry (And Not So Angry) White Working-Class Men and WomenWorlds of Pain?; Self-Confidence; Structure and Agency; Social Mobility and the Economy; Neighborhood; Hard and Settled Living; Angry (And Not So Angry) White Working-Class Men and Women; Hidden Injuries of Class; What Can Be Done?; Limitations; The Story Continues; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.0973; Working class -- United States -- Attitudes; Whites -- United States -- Attitudes; Self-confidence; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Self-confidence; Whites -- Attitudes; Working class -- Attitudes; Society; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319588988; 3319588982
• Related ISBNs: 3319588974; 9783319588971
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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