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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.

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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.

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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.

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Leisure is, in Japan, the ultimate luxury expending energy in leisure rather than work.

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The Self is a rhetorical figure and a performative assertion, enacted in specific situations within fields of power, history, and culture.

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The Self is a site for the play of multiple discourses and shifting, multiple subject-positions.

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The Self is implicated in relations of power. Cannot be discussed in the abstract... only in its specificity.

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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.

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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).

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The Self is produced through language. Transgression risks either punishment or incomprehensibility and chaos.

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The Self is difficult to study directly — to write about it is, paradoxically, always to also reinscribe a self/society distinction.

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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.