 | Marlis Buchmann - 1989 - 276 sider
...prefer and value highly strategies of action for which their cultural equipment is well suited, because "one can hardly pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal know-how are unfamiliar" (Swidler, 1986, p. 275). 38. For instance, the logic of... | |
 | Nicole Woolsey Biggart - 1989 - 240 sider
...encourage, to share — abilities not so highly valued in firms. As sociologist Ann Swidler put it, "One can hardly pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal knowhow are unfamiliar. One does better to look for a line of action for which... | |
 | David Croteau - 1995 - 326 sider
...their culture organized their overall pattern of behavior." Swidler (1986: 275) goes on to comment, "If one asked a slum youth why he did not take steps...pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal know-how are unfamiliar. One does better to look for a line of action for which... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1998 - 306 sider
...middle-class path to success (or indeed asked oneself why one did not pursue a different life direction), the answer might well be not "I don't want that life,"...pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal know-how are unfamiliar. One does better to look for a line of action for which... | |
 | Leslie Irvine - 1999 - 230 sider
...security. What differs is the range of available skills, competencies, and habits. As Swidler explains. If one asked a slum youth why he did not take steps to pursue a middleclass path to success (or indeed asked oneself why one did not pursue a different life direction) the answer might well be... | |
 | Anthony M. Orum, John Wallace Claire Johnstone, Stephanie Riger - 1999 - 596 sider
...explanation is that the "kit of tools" their culture provides does not enable them to do so. As she put it, "one can hardly pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal know-how are unfamiliar" (1986:275). In her view, then, the differences in outcomes... | |
 | Stewart R Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, Walter R Nord - 1999 - 292 sider
...values or have a bad attitude toward work, but because they lack the capacities for such a life style: One can hardly pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal know-how are unfamiliar. ... To adopt a line of conduct, one needs an image of... | |
 | Dan Dohan - 2003 - 317 sider
...sense is more like a style or a set of skills and habits than a set of preferences or wants. . . . One can hardly pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal know-how are unfamiliar. (p. 175) Lacking a cultural "sense" for middle-class life... | |
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One can hardly pursue success in a world where the accepted skills, style, and informal know-how are unfamiliar. One does better to look for a line of action for which one already has the cultural equipment. 
