Sublime

Privileged eyes constantly remove their gaze from root causes of social and economic despair to myopically perceive positive family adaptations as dysfunction or as causing poverty.

It was once said that the poor are “constantly exposed to evidence of their own irrelevance.”

not everyone is equally equipped with the free time, knowledge, and incentives to participate.

What’s more, those branches of social theory that make the greatest claims to “scientific status”—“rational choice theory,” for instance—start from the same assumptions about human psychology that economists do: that human beings are best viewed as self-interested actors calculating how to get the best terms possible out of any situation, the most

The social is therefore inherently unstable.

We might have saved ourselves the trouble by looking at the many examples of successful economies (Western Europe, Japan and Korea) in

“we cannot put in order the personal welfare of our souls unless we address the welfare of society” (2006, p. 372).

as long as the American democracy remains at the head of affairs no one will undertake so difficult a task; and it may be foreseen that the freer the white population of the United States becomes, the more isolated will it remain.

A 2015 study by the American Sociological Foundation found that the highest level of segregation is between blacks and whites, the lowest is between Asians and whites, and the level between Latinx and whites occupies an intermediate position. A majority of whites, in both the expression of their beliefs and the practice of their lives, do not want