Download A Macat Analysis of Jay MacLeod's Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood AudioBook Free
American sociologist and priest Jay MacLeod's 1987 work Ain't No Makin' It is groundbreaking for the novel way it combines field research with theory. The book uses the lives of two sets of young men from a low-income housing project in the higher Boston area. In it, MacLeod shows how the indegent who aspire to live the North american dream face many more hurdles than their middle-class counterparts. Within a challenge to regular ideas about competition, MacLeod talks about the largely white Hallway Hangers, who are delinquents and high-school dropouts, and the largely dark-colored Brothers, who avoid drugs and stay in school. Yet in a damning indictment of the American school system, even the Brothers are largely unable to secure good jobs by enough time they reach middle age. We see this as MacLeod comes back to write revisions on the men twice on the 25-year period for a second and third model of the book. Ain't No Makin' It remains a center sociology wording today.
