10. Class, Race & Opportunity Hoarding
10. Class, Race & Opportunity Hoarding
10. Class, Race & Opportunity Hoarding
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Soci 220 2009-10 Week 10 —<br />
<strong>Opportunity</strong> hoarding<br />
I. <strong>Opportunity</strong> hoarding defined<br />
“When members of a categorically bounded network<br />
acquire access to a resource that is valuable, renewable,<br />
subject to monopoly, supportive of network activities,<br />
& enhanced by the network’s modus operandi, network<br />
members regularly hoard their access to the resource,<br />
creating beliefs & practices that sustain their<br />
control” (Tilly, 91)<br />
II. Relation to exploitation<br />
• a secondary mechanism of durable inequality<br />
• complements exploitation<br />
• done mainly by members of non-elite (i.e. those who are not<br />
exploiters, not powerholders, not owners)<br />
• benefits accrue to members of categorically bounded network<br />
that practices opp. hoarding (conversely, losses to members who<br />
leave the category)<br />
• differences:<br />
• exploitation enlists efforts of others<br />
• opportunity hoarding excludes others<br />
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