Each participant will read Jay MacLeod’s Ain’t No Makin’ It and provide (1) a brief summary of the book’s findings and (2) a sociologically informed response to this question: How important were (1)...

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Ain't No Making' by Jay MacLeod is as educational and relevant today as it was when it was originally published in 1987 in terms of comprehending the poverty cycle (MacLeod). McLeod claims that schools are a key factor in perpetuating and legitimizing class viewpoints and structures. The Brothers are mostly black and have bigger hopes for their future. The Hallway Hangers are a gang of mostly white youngsters who reject the American ideal.
MacLeod does a fantastic job of demonstrating how a lack of educational qualifications, alcohol and drug misuse, racism, and social assistance programs, all contribute to these men's inability to find steady work. The Hallway Hangers demonstrate how long-lasting and solid the class organization is. Intellect, application, and Aspiration, frequently fail to break through the hard figurations of structural inequity. Short of turning the United States into a "decentralized socialist economy," he gives few tangible proposals for changing the class system he so eloquently...