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What is the American ideal?
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Meritocracy -> the belief that an individual's ability to transform ultimately lies within
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What is the significance of the Exit Zero sign?
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Being caught in a limbo of post-industrial no man's land
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What was Walley's argument about class?
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Class is about the trajectories of our lives
And is more or less influential than others |
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What is class?
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The constant negotiation of the relationships of inequality in which we find ourselves
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What is the Gilded Age?
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After the post-civil war economic boom
American society transformed by industrialization Steel industry boomed, many flocked to Chicago to work in the metal industry |
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Who is Julie Bettie?
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A sociologist who argues that much of our sense of ourselves in class terms developed within non-work spheres of life
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Who is Sherry Ortner?
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An anthropologist who suggests that among American working classes
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