1. Liquidated Culture as Occupational: Wall Street as an Example Socialization into a Culture: Becoming a Wall Street investment banker The Making of an Elite Hegemony: Wall Street’s Cultural Dominance of American Society

2. Culture Shared and learned behaviors and beliefs Could be of a smaller group than a nation or ethnically defined people Girls of the Factory: representative of Morocco? Life is Hard: representative of Nicaragua? Liquidated: an occupational culture Example of occupational culture in your own experience?

3. Wall Street Culture Values “Kinship” Spatial hierarchies Worldview which legitimates WS’s existence Founding legends Language: What do these mean to you? What do these mean on Wall Street? “smart” “efficient” “liquid” “global presence” Temporality Bogeyman

4. Socialization Becoming a member of a group of people “Taking on” their worldview, their norms and values, their categories of persons (e.g., gender, race, social class, child/adult) so that one is recognizable to them, and accepted by them Most of us are socialized as children But process of socialization does not end; we enter new groups of people across our lifecourse and change categories of person (age, marital status, occupations) Imitation Importance of belonging

5. Questions about Karen Ho Anon Mary Ellen LaRosa Angela Errigo Matt Trant Kelsey Schaffer

6. Karen Ho’s fieldwork as a kind of socialization into Wall Street culture What surprises and shocks her initially? What is common sense (normal, natural) within this occupational culture that she is not used to? How does socialization into Wall Street create a person of certain dispositions, goals and subjectivity? How does she learn Wall Street culture? Critique of Karen Ho by Lucy Lescota