In a conventional workspace, a manager must maintain an authoritative image to generate cooperative yet compliant relationships with the employees. The argument that Bourgois poses throughout the text is that a majority of these drug employees possesses skills necessary to thrive as productive workers in conventional jobs. By immersing himself into the stratified society of drug dealers in El Barrio and violating apartheid as an ethnographic study, Bourgois was able to gain this insight on the extent of their economic struggle. The culture of poverty theory would fail to consider the ineluctable racism that maintains the economic disparity and social apartheid between the privileged middle and upper class and marginalized ethnic societies. Although violence is an effective business strategy among the drug dealers, it often transpires within their households due to a crisis of patriarchy. Throughout the book, Bourgois describes how Candy’s responses to her interactions with the men in her life is a product of the exertion of patriarchy within the household. In a psychological determinist approach, Candy would be diagnosed with the battered …show more content…
These political figures are reduced within media based on the negative portrayal of their appearance and demeanor. They are ridiculed for being hostile when exuding professionalism, while men do the same and are considered effective in their careers. Unfair denunciations of women are a result of imposing gender roles, gender taboos, and the operation of male dominance. These denunciations become an instrument that diminishes the perceived value of women within society. The impact of external factors on the individual is evident when all these factors are considered