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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morality
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评分研究working class 认为什么是最有价值的以此来看他们在社会经济地位不高的情况下如何维护或者界定自我价值和尊严。研究从道德的视角来看，对于working class 而言，他们更关心的是生活的稳定和确定性而非社会流动；并且他们认为自己是比upper class更正直和更诚实，因此具有道德上的优越感~研究还比较了黑人和白人、美国人和法国人的区别。
评分对非我族类的成见、对下层阶级的歧视、对上层阶级的恶意揣测，还有想尽办法想找到自己比别人更优越的地方——只要人类存在，这些永远存在，而社会学不但没能消减它们，反而因为对gender、race、class、superior、inferior这些概念的反复描摹，加重人们对boundary的概念#最近有些读书致郁
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