Capitalism is an all-encompassing system where no matter what one does (be that dropping out, dropping in, or succeeding) there is a place waiting for them in the capitalist system.
The Evocative voice is a rhetorical/theoretical strategy that can 'call forth a world,' in all its particular complexity and richness, and at the same time problematize that world by questioning the notion that the writer's account is a comprehensive worldview.
The Evocative voice is an approach toward ethnographic writing capable of indicating the possibilities and limitations involved in a process during which researchers and people in their fields can seek to understand each other within shifting fields of power and meaning.
Leisure is, in Japan, the ultimate luxury expending energy in leisure rather than work.
The Self is a rhetorical figure and a performative assertion, enacted in specific situations within fields of power, history, and culture.
The Self is a site for the play of multiple discourses and shifting, multiple subject-positions.
The Self is implicated in relations of power. Cannot be discussed in the abstract... only in its specificity.
The Self is never separable from context: That is, from the situations in which they are performed, the audience to whom the narrative production of self it addressed.
The Self is one's inner, reflective, psychological essence that resist closure and reveals complicated, shifting, multiple facets (as opposed to person: Or bearer of social roles).
The Self is produced through language. Transgression risks either punishment or incomprehensibility and chaos.
The Self is difficult to study directly — to write about it is, paradoxically, always to also reinscribe a self/society distinction.
A Subject position is a shifting nodal points within conflict-ridden fields of meaning.
Surface is a level of society whose cultivation influences deeper levels. By first keeping the rules which define the form, even if one's understanding is incomplete or one disagrees with them, that a sincere attitude is eventually born.
