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“Everybody looks for an identity; that's human nature - and it's especially true about young people. But that's why the ultimate sacrifice is to give up your individuality for the sake of the team. We can only be successful when everyone understands that the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts, but we will never get there if everyone is looking to carve out a little place for themselves, to steal her own identity at the expense of everyone else.”

Book:Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

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Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

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C. Vivian Stringer

C. Vivian Stringer is a distinguished basketball coach who has made significant contributions to the sport, particularly in women's basketball. With a coaching career spanning over four decades, she has been a pivotal figure in shaping the landscape of women's basketball. Stringer has led her teams to numerous national championships and has been honored with numerous awards for her coaching excellence. more

“The conventional way of understanding taste, according to Distinction, is to view it as a capacity for aesthetic judgments in areas such as music, art, and literature. Though rarely made explicit, it is well understood that taste can be found only among the elite, and that the lower classes lack it. Bourdieu argues that it is imperative to break with this concept of taste and replace it with one that is sociological in nature. In order to do so, Bourdieu expands the concept of taste from including only "aesthetic consumption" to including "ordinary consumption," that is, the consumption of clothing, furniture, and food ([1979] 1986:100). He also extends the concept of taste to all social classes, and shows that what constitutes "good taste" is very much part of the struggle for domination in society.”

Taste Social Classes Economic Sociology Consumer Study

Book:Principles of Economic Sociology

Source: Principles of Economic Sociology

“As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.”

Social Classes Economic Sociology Class Analysis

Book:Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry

Source: Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry

“Interests are what drives the actions of individuals at some fundamental level. Furthermore interests are intensely social phenomena. Other individuals have to be taken into account when an actor attempts to realize her interests; there is also the fact that interests are socially defined.”

Interest Economic Sociology

Book:Principles of Economic Sociology

Source: Principles of Economic Sociology