Ortner New Jersey Dreaming

Capital, Culture, and the Class of ‘58
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8737-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 357 Seiten

Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine class culture and ethnicity in America today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ortner, Sherry B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Map ix

Acknowledgments xi

Letter to the Class of '58 xv

1. Introduction:

A Genealogy of the Present / The Class of '58 and the Question of Class / The Research / The Native Ethnographer / Project Journal 1: Getting Started 1

The Making of the Class of '58

2. Reading Class:

Families and Class / Behind Closed Doors / Hiding in Plain Sight / Project Journal 2: Florida 27

3. Drawing Boundaries:

To Melt or Not? / The Ethnic Story / The Class Story / Project Journal 3: Los Angeles 51

4. Dealing with Boundaries:

The Others / Overt Racism / Race and Ethnic Relations at Weequabic / Internalizing Limits / Survival Strategies / Project Journal 4: New Jersey 68

5. American High Schools:

Memories and Categories / Deconstructing High School / High School Types across Time and Space / Permutations of the Structure / Project Journal 5: New York 90

6. Weekquahic:

The Top of the Table: High-Capital Kids and Popularity / The Lower Half of the Table: Low-Capital Kids and Resistance / Identities I: The Wildness of the Tame / Identities II: The Tameness of the Wild / Project Journal 6: New Jersey 110

7. Tracks:

Weequabic qua School / College Prep? / Cultural Capital / College as a Cultural System / Gender Tracks / Project Journal 7: New Jersey 141

What the Class of '58 Made

8. Counterlives:

Earlier Causes / The Other Fifities / The Sixties / Project Journa 8: New Jersey 169

9. Money:

Success / Upward Mobility / The Success of Jewish Men / High -Capital Jewish Boys / Downward Mobility / Low-Capital Jewish Boys / Mobility, Agency, and History / Project Journal 9: Children of the Class of '58, New Jersey 187

10. Happiness:

Zero College / Success II: Happiness / Project Journal 10: Children of the Class of '58 (LA and Other Far-flung Places, Including New Jersey) 213

11. Liberation:

Women and Higher Education / Class of '58 Women and the Feminist Movement / Divorce / Careers / Succeeding in Nontraditional Careers / Project Journal 11: Endgame 238

12. Late Capitalism:

The Class of '58 and the Making of Late Capitalism / The Growth of the PMC / Race Again 262

Appendix 1. Finding People / Judy Epstein Rothbard 279

Appendix 2. In Memoriam 282

Appendix 3. Lost Classmates 283

Appendix 4. The Class of '58 Today 284

Notes 295

Works Cited 313

Index 331

Über Autor(innen)

Sherry B. Ortner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Life and Death on Mt. Everest: Sherpas and Himalayan Mountaineering, Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture, and High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. She has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.