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Some not‐so‐hidden injuries of class: Autoethnographies of U.S. social mobility
Author(s) -
HANDLER RICHARD
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1111/amet.12099
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , ethnography , socioeconomic status , social mobility , class (philosophy) , social class , sociology , social worlds , grounded theory , life chances , gender studies , anthropology , social science , epistemology , qualitative research , political science , law , demography , philosophy , population
Shamus Khan's Privilege and Christine Walley's Exit Zero are autobiographically grounded analyses of social class in the United States. Drawing on memory, personal documents, the telling ethnographic incident, and relevant social theory, each brings to light some of the ways that current neoliberal socioeconomic policies constrict people's life chances.