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In her latest column, Gillian Tett draws attention to Generic Klonopin Pictures the research of Anne Jefferson, an anthropologist who is studying how mortgage foreclosures are Generic Klonopin Pictures unfolding in the United States. This caught my attention:

In the Generic Klonopin Pictures past century, American culture has developed a well-entrenched, commonly shared national narrative to Generic Klonopin Pictures explain and justify success – the myth of the “American dream”. But, observes Jefferson, while “the American dream narrative explains upward mobility … we have Generic Klonopin Pictures fewer cultural narratives to help us understand and cope with downward mobility”. Thus, widespread foreclosures pose a “narrative challenge”; there is Generic Klonopin Pictures no single, commonly agreed national way to explain these events. Different groups are Generic Klonopin Pictures fighting to control the story.

The column is here.

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I wrote last week about violent conflict and modes of identification. It comes up again in this nice piece by FT’s Tom Burgis:

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In full here. It is FT so it is somewhat gated.

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Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously (or infamously) told Women’s Own magazine that “there is no such thing as society”, and yes, I see her point. But she went on to say: “There are individual men and women, and there are families.” Aye, there’s the rub. Are we methodological individualists (the Generic Klonopin Pictures term was, I think, coined by Schumpeter, who I wrote about here recently) obliged to Generic Klonopin Pictures insist that everything comes down to the minds, thoughts, values, and Generic Klonopin Pictures actions of individuals alone? Or can Generic Klonopin Pictures we admit that relationships between individuals, like family ties, are pretty basic too? And what about culture, or history, or religion, or even class? These all shape and Generic Klonopin Pictures constrain our individual thoughts and actions. But to admit them as significant is Generic Klonopin Pictures the thin end of the methodological wedge, because these are Generic Klonopin Pictures social phenomena.

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