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Title: Learning to Labor by Paul E. Willis ISBN: 0-231-05357-6 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 5
Summary: A landmark effort at synthesizing theoretical frameworks
Comment: I use Willis' work every semester in my graduate level educational research methods class. It is one of first and
most influential efforts to bring together a marxist focus on macro-social dynamics, a symbolic interactionist focus on micro-social interactions, and a phenomenological focus on individual consicousness into a single study of class reproduction. It is a classic in every sense.
Rating: 5
Summary: Still The Best Ethnography in Sociology
Comment: I came to Dr. Willis's Learning To Labor as a Ph.D. student at York University, Toronto. I was profoundly moved both theoretically and personally. Willis gives us a theoretical way of articulating macro and micro perspectives which shows how the two arise in dialectical fashion, e.g. class determines the working class lives of the lads through the very choices of the lads themselves! It was, and still is, a brilliant insight and contribution in relation to ongoing discussions of structure/agency and the whole question of determinism. Dr. Willis's work also touched base with my own life. I grew up in a cotton mill town in South Carolina. The local school was closely tied to the local manufacturing plants and the surrounding working-class, both in the fields and the mills. I saw the life of the lads as nearly identical with the life of the white, working class kids that I went to school with. Most of my high school friends saw going to college as a "waste of time" and for "sissies". Real work required real men! Most ended up in the local cotton mills. Many of these young men had promising lives that could have been realized, but at those structural moments choices were made that reproduced the local working-class. I have since written my own ethnographic work (Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000) and I have to say that Dr. Willis's work was always a big help and resource for thinking through the relationship between reproduction and resistance. A must read for anyone on the verge of ethnographic research and for the general reader as well.
Rating: 2
Summary: How outdated research Get outdated reviews
Comment: I thought this book was very outdated and hard to read because of the English accent Willis uses. The research was OK but a little bias against working class ( poor and broke)kids.
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Title: Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents) by Dick Hebdige ISBN: 0415039495 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 10 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Ideology and Curriculum by Michael W. Apple ISBN: 0415902665 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: What Is Cultural Studies?: A Reader by John Storey ISBN: 0340652403 Publisher: Edward Arnold Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method by Herbert Blumer ISBN: 0520056760 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1986 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Phenomenology of the Social World by Alfred Schutz, George Walsh, Frederick Lehnert ISBN: 0810103907 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: September, 1967 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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