Michele Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men - the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other social benefits, she constructs a revealing portrait of how they see themselves and the rest of society. Morality is at the centre of these workers' worlds. They find their identity and self-worth in their ability to discipline themselves and conduct responsible but caring lives. These moral standards function as an alternative to economic definitions of success, offering them a way to maintain dignity in an out-of-reach American dreamland. But these standards also enable them to draw class boundaries toward the poor and, to a lesser extent, the upper half. Workers also draw rigid racial boundaries, with white workers placing emphasis on the "disciplined self" and blacks on the "caring self". Whites thereby often construe blacks as morally inferior because they are lazy, while blacks depict whites as domineering, uncaring and overly disciplined. This book also opens up a wider perspective by examining American workers in comparison with French workers, who take the poor as "part of us" and are far less critical of blacks than they are of upper-middle-class people and immigrants. By singling out different "moral offenders" in the two societies, workers reveal contrasting definitions of "cultural membership" that help us understand and challenge the forms of inequality found in both societies.
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對非我族類的成見、對下層階級的歧視、對上層階級的惡意揣測，還有想盡辦法想找到自己比彆人更優越的地方——隻要人類存在，這些永遠存在，而社會學不但沒能消減它們，反而因為對gender、race、class、superior、inferior這些概念的反復描摹，加重人們對boundary的概念#最近有些讀書緻鬱
评分研究working class 認為什麼是最有價值的以此來看他們在社會經濟地位不高的情況下如何維護或者界定自我價值和尊嚴。研究從道德的視角來看，對於working class 而言，他們更關心的是生活的穩定和確定性而非社會流動；並且他們認為自己是比upper class更正直和更誠實，因此具有道德上的優越感~研究還比較瞭黑人和白人、美國人和法國人的區彆。
评分對非我族類的成見、對下層階級的歧視、對上層階級的惡意揣測，還有想盡辦法想找到自己比彆人更優越的地方——隻要人類存在，這些永遠存在，而社會學不但沒能消減它們，反而因為對gender、race、class、superior、inferior這些概念的反復描摹，加重人們對boundary的概念#最近有些讀書緻鬱
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