Herbert Gintis

Paul Willis's Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (2007) is based on an ethnographic research on a group of working class high school students in a British industrial town. In Learning to Labour, Willis’ questions come from his Marxist influence, mostly coming from Antonio Gramsci; he asks how the working class constantly socially reproduces on an individual level, and how can one justify for the subordinates' agreement with their condition (The cultural reader,…

Although the use of a dialogue is present, the writer has included theoretical perspectives from sociology theorists such as Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. The language and tone therefore can be quite complex. Although the writing can be perceived as difficult, MacLeod attempts to give examples by referring back to the boys to help aid the complicated vocabulary. In order to fully understand MacLeod’s…