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 />
Analysing opportunity hoarding<br />
II. ‘The boys’ (fill in the information yourself for workshop)<br />
a. categorically bounded network<br />
i. categorical pairs —<br />
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from whom do the boys try to distinguish themselves?<br />
ii. network: transactions & social relations, and their limits<br />
•<br />
who do they interact with? who don’t they interact with?<br />
iii. boundaries<br />
• how do they mark the boundary between themselves & others?<br />
b. to what extent do they have access to resources that are<br />
i. valuable<br />
ii. renewable<br />
iii. subject to monopoly<br />
iv. supportive of network activities<br />
v. enhanced by the network’s modus operandi<br />
c. what are the beliefs & practices that sustain their control?<br />
i. beliefs: stories, negative attributions, reasons<br />
ii. practices: monitoring, rituals<br />
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