Dalton Conley, Honky

(8): discovering race [discuss? does this hit home? this is part of a larger discussion, which we wil have next week]

(15): allusion to social policy neglect [important, situate private troubles in context of social-structural issues]

(26-27): good example of what to do for papers [situate individuals in larger trends]

(30-31): again, good example of how to do personal descriptions in terms of social concepts

(48-49): race/ethnicity [a bit tricky, but worth tackling]

(51): they/we [arbitrariness of social policy--hits home?]

(54): thus far, a q. begging account of poverty in the projects [he alludes to lack of jobs, etc., at the end of the book--pg. 202. discuss]

(73): status hierarchies [it exists, what would our social theorists say about this, though?]

(87): social policy, re: sanitation department

(112): industrial --> post-industrial economy. ['sociological imagination' enter here]

(135): his father's attitude towards work, thanks to his class position [discuss. what are the implications of this for social reproduction, conceptions of social structure?]

(181): the fire, and 'middle-class' privilege [most powerful of the whole book -- allowed to talk it through with authority]

(188): "maintenance men" [can get at the concept of the occupational structure, through this -- used in tandem with traffic metaphor]

(202): still 'no jobs' [key]

(203): nice traffic metaphor [for getting at social structure]

(206): "literary truths, not scientific"