[lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood

[bitch at pulpculture.org]

another absolutely brilliant piece of comparative research is Michel 
Lamont's _Money, Morals, and Manners_. She compares the US to France, 
studying the groups of professional-managerial workers in three different 
types of communities in each country: urban, rural, suburban. She is 
fleshing out Bourdieu's theory of class distinction. Among the many reasons 
why it's brilliant is that, instead of focusing on the "deviant", she asks 
how "middle classness" is constituted in the minds of those who believe 
they are: against whom do they define themselves? What makes them 
distinctively middle class. how do they display and signal that social 
position to others? How do they know others are also of the same class?

The connections she makes with racism are also great, but needed to be 
fleshed out even more. But for the purposes of this discussion, she traces 
distinct differences in the way USers and the French think about "smart 
people," science, knowledge, and so forth and its role in business, 
research and development, and life in general.

Seriously. If you really want empirical evidence of what Doug is talking 
about: read it. Maybe I'll doa s eminar on it at the blog. :)

naw, i got too much going on.

At 08:48 PM 2/9/2007, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
>At 04:39 PM 2/9/2007, Carrol Cox wrote:
> >Until someone offers more than anecdotal evidence otherwise, I will take
> >for granted that anti-intellectualism in the united states is primarily
> >among intellectuals, not within the population as a whole.
> >
> >Carrol

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