Problem of Mobility for Poor Youths

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In Ain't No Makin' It, the two groups of boys concerned are the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers. The Hallway Hangers are white youth, and they reject dominant societal values and have low aspirations. They were raised in families with a long history of living in public housing, they had absentee fathers, and their families had problems with the law. They see occupational opportunities as closed to them and feel that whatever their abilities and hard work ethics, their class position will always hinder their advancement. As a result, they consider school a waste of time and develop an achievement orientation grounded in the present. They become involved in drug and alcohol use, truancy, and petty crime. To the author, family, work and school socialize these working-class youth into working-class jobs with low aspirations.

The Brothers, who are African American, on the other hand, accept societal values and their parents have a significant impact on their aspirations as far as education and employment are concerned. They are optimistic and see opportunities open to them which come as rewards for hard work and their innate abilities. They accept schooling, and their teachers become a source of direction in their lives whom they trust and see as role models. They rationalize the positions of their parents as being due to discrimination, but have strong hopes for their own futures because they see the possibilities of upward mobility within a reformed, nondiscriminat

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girl but afraid to approach her because he doesn't ant to spoil anything. Will is inundated with job offers because of his genius. The psychologist is finally able to convince Will of his self-worth and the worth of others, and he realizes the value of his impossibly high IQ, but by this time, the girl has left town. The movie ends with Will setting of across country to go after the girl he loves. For Will, Turner's upward mobility is possible because of his genius, if he will only apply himself, and let go of his self-defeating attitude. For Will, the school system promoted belief in upward mobility. References Damon, M., & Affleck, B. (1997). Good Will Hunting. MacLeod, J. (1995). Ain't No Makin' It. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Turner's theory of mobility centers on two major modes of mobility: "contest mobility" and "sponsored mobility" (Educational, 2005). "'Sponsored" mobility involves the early selection of recruits by the existing elite who are then carefully given the best available education to equip them with the skills (technical and social) they will need when they fill positions of power. Such a system is to be found in the old tripartite system - early selection at 11 and then a classic gr
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