Exclusion and Inclusion in Terms of Endearment

The anxiety of loneliness that pervades American life and determines its emotional and social boundaries is ultimately the anxiety of exclusion: the uneasy feeling that one has become redundant in the group(s) to which one desires to belong. By representing social life as a mosaic of various competing groups rather than as a collectivity, the existing social order reproduces its dominant cultural values. A group's main cultural function is the validation of its members' identity; it is a congregation of separate sovereign individuals who have competed with others to get into the group and, once in the group, continue their rivalry with others in order to stay in it

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