Its an ethnographic study of two groups of teenage boys living in a housing project in new hampshire in the 1980s and 90s. Aspirations and attainment in a lowincome neighborhood. Aint no makin it by jay macleod, 1995, westview press edition, in english. Click download or read online button to get ain t no makin it book now. In 1987, he wrote a book called aint no makin it an upclose look at the lives of two groups of teenage boys living in housing. Macleod focused on the occupational aspirations of the youth, relying on qualitative research methods to explore how these aspirations were formed and the. Ain t no makin it download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Aspirations and attainment in a lowincome neighborhood jay macleod 2009 tobe, yuri, suyent, jarrod april 18, 2018. By showing that the members of both groups find it equally hard to achieve their dreams that there really aint no makin it, as his title proposes macleod issues a direct challenge to the ideology of the american dream, and by extension to the social contract that underpinned american society and politics for the duration of the. Jay macleod is a sociologist, author, and episcopal priest. Jay macleod s classic ethnography a defining work on the cycle of social. Their story of poverty, race, and defeatism moved readers and challenged ethnic stereotypes.
Written by jay macleod served as a youth counselor in the neighborhood of clarendon heights. The first group, the hallway hangers, were mostly white and did not believe in the american ideal of. Jay macleod considers the differing aspirations of the two groups of boys. He studies two groups of teenagers in a public housing project called clarendon heights. Download pdf online ain t no makin it, 3rd edition.
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