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 |
9 (RLIN) | 123330 |
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Title | Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | American Journal of Sociology |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2024 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
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 |
9 (RLIN) | 2932 |
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Topical term or geographic name entry element | Ethnography |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social Reproduction |
9 (RLIN) | 20184 |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
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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Koha biblionumber | 134489 |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Serial Enumeration / chronology | Total Checkouts | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Dr VKRV Rao Library | Dr VKRV Rao Library | 07/11/2024 | Vol. 130, No. 2 | AI760 | 07/11/2024 | 07/11/2024 | Article Index |