Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage (Record no. 134489)

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International Standard Serial Number 0002-9602
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Personal name Wooten, Tom
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Title Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. American Journal of Sociology
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2024
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Extent 344-383
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Abstract It seems intuitive that the more effort one exerts to escape poverty, the likelier one should be to succeed. Findings from a two-year ethnographic study of low-income Black men transitioning to adulthood challenge this intuition. Participants in the study encountered two-tiered effort traps. First, schools and life circumstances regularly primed participants to overexert themselves in pursuit of escaping poverty and meeting long-term goals. Second, participants' resulting efforts proved not merely futile but counterproductive, keeping them committed to untenable workloads past a point of no return and causing exhaustion and failure. Effort traps are a previously unrecognized mechanism of social reproduction: a structured way that ambitious young people from low-income families can be set up to fail, not despite their best efforts but precisely because of them.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Adulthood
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Ethnography
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social Reproduction
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Poverty
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731316">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731316</a>
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