TY - BOOK ID - 12918081 TI - New Jersey dreaming : capital, culture, and the class of '58 PY - 2003 SN - 082233108X 9780822331087 0822335980 9780822335986 PB - Durham Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - High school graduates KW - Social mobility KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - Weequahic High School (Newark, N.J.). KW - Graduates, High school KW - High schools KW - Mobility, Social KW - Sociology KW - Alumni and alumnae KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - #SBIB:39A74 KW - 316.342.2 KW - 316.342.2 Sociale klassen KW - Sociale klassen KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Etnografie: Amerika KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12918081 AB - "Pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner is renowned for her work on the Sherpas of Nepal. Now she turns her attention home-ward to examine how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. In New Jersey Dreaming, Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at Weequahic High School's Class of 1958, of which she was a member. She explores her classmates' recollected experiences of the neighborhood and the high school, also written about in the novels of Philip Roth, Weequahic High School's most famous alum. Ortner provides a chronicle of the journey of her classmates from the 1950s into the 1990s, following the movement of a striking number of them from modest working- and middle-class backgrounds into the wealthy upper-middle or professional/managerial class."--Jacket. ER -