Studying language and culture helped me understand and explain intellectually what I felt about class and my life; others have used different methods and measures to arrive at a similar cultural logic (Sennett and Cobb 1972; Meltzer 1978; Heath 1983, l991, 1996; Bourdieu 1984; Metzgar 2000; Lareau 2003; Lareau and Conley 2008; Torlina 2011, and others).
