What is Social Reproduction?
Social Reproduction, as covered in Chapter 2, is the study of how class structure is reproduced from one generation to the next.
Ain't No Makin' It deals mostly with the theory of social reproduction in relation to the poor in America, specifically two young groups of boys living in a housing project called Clarendon Heights, the Brothers and the Hallway Hangers. The main subject of chapter seven is the process of social reproduction as it is lived by the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers.
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