Moments In Flow

Tag: stratification

  • SAAVUTETTU ETU

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    The Earned Advantage, and Why the Middle Class’s Own Story Makes Its Defence Indefensible An advantage that is earned cannot be defended. The defence is the confession that it was not earned. I. THE STORY The middle class has a story about itself, and the story is about time. It is the story of deferred…

  • THE PEAR:Why the Shape of the Distribution Determines Whether Class Stays Class

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    The shape of the distribution is the variable. Everything else is a policy. I. FOUR SHAPES, FOUR LOGICS The class structure is usually described by its height. The variable that matters is its shape. The pyramid. A mass base, a thin middle, a narrow top. The gap between base and top usually is unbridgeable within…

  • THE LIFE STAGE TRAP

    HOW INSTITUTIONS WEAPONIZE AGE CATEGORIES TO CAPTURE RESPONSIBILITY, DISCIPLINE REPRODUCTION, AND SEGREGATE THE ELITE Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: Anglo-American Core, with EU/French Counterpoint INTRODUCTION The previous posts in this series examined the employer-sponsored visa as a choke point, the portable visa as anti-capture technology, the startup city as…