Driving After Class
The author of Driving After Class uses this type of vehicle as an metaphor for neoliberalism and class anxiety.
SUV
As opposed to matrilineal systems, in this system of descent, inherited leadership, passes from father to son or from brother to brother.
patrilineal
In 1795, Friedrich Blumenbach claimed that white Europeans came from [?] peoples based on the Bible story of Noah's ark. The word [?] is often used to refer to white people today based on his definition.
Caucasian
The [Modern OR Traditional] state makes ethnicity into a problem
Modern states require that its people identify as
members of a nation: with a shared history, laws,
educational system, and patriotism commonly shared
Students in Danboro (the town in Driving After Class) often attended pre-prom parties that allowed for class display. What kind of ritual do these parties represent?
Rite of passage/coming of age ritual
requires individuals to marry w/in their own group and forbids them to marry beyond it. Preserves separateness and exclusivity of groups
Endogamy
This French theorist gave us terms such as biopolitics and the panopticon to describe how power operates.
Promotes state deregulation, a decrease in state
involvement accompanied by privatization and
free market approaches, to encourage economic
growth
Neoliberalism
Heiman describes the presence of these objects in school hallways as representing pressure to reflect one’s class privilege and constantly monitor appearances.
Mirrors
Revolutionary movements = cancel the [ ? ] ,
redistribute the land
Debts
Bourdieu described this term as "ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions; the way individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it. [e.g., disgust and “get used to it”]
Habitus
Ideology & politics that explicitly or implicitly define the nation in ethnic, racial, or narrowly religious terms.
Ethno-nationalism
This term arose in the 1920s with the closing of the American frontier and represents the ideal of self-reliance and enterprise.
Rugged Individualism
when one party gets something valued highly in return for nothing or something lowly valued: the type of exchange that characterizes colonial
relationships.
[reciprocal exchange, negative reciprocity, potlatch, generalized reciprocity, indebtedness, balanced reciprocity, Kayasa]
Negative reciprocity
In discussing kinship, structuralist Levi-Strauss claimed that the taboo against [?] is the “first rule” that promotes passage from a state of nature to a state of culture and that this taboo is a rule obliging women to be exchanged between clans/tribes
Incest
The social experience of historical moment (economic & political), exerts a “palpable pressure” and results from contradictions within a class.
[subjectivity, class sensibility, neoliberalism, microprocess, condition of possibility, structure of feeling]
Structure of Feeling
Debates over this practice sparked concerns about overcrowding and roused uncertainties about the fiscal and discursive boundaries of inclusion and
exclusion
Zoning
A mode of exchange where valuables are not traded or sold, but rather given without an explicit agreement
for immediate or future rewards. Eg: the Kula ring
Gift Economy
This female theorist described "pollution" as anxiety
produced through acts of purification; tension between external behavior/secret emotion
Mary Douglas
This identity involves 3 claims: 1) to common descent; 2) to a shared history; 3) that certain symbols
capture the core of the group’s identity