A subtype of the endurance self, Cowboys see honor and masculine pride in facing dangers, even unnecessary ones. Donny McCorquodale embodies this type of self-understanding: he resents the government for trying to eliminate risks he believes people should be free to take. Surveying Louisiana’s lax enforcement of environmental regulations and restrictions on dangerous behaviors in general, Hochschild concludes that it is a “Cowboy state.”
Cowboy Quotes in Strangers in Their Own Land
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Chapter 13
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“We need Mikes.” Don't be a Cowboy in enduring pollution, he seemed to say. Be a Cowboy fighting it.
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Cowboy Term Timeline in Strangers in Their Own Land
The timeline below shows where the term Cowboy appears in Strangers in Their Own Land. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 10 – The Team Player: Loyalty Above All
...“three distinct expressions of this endurance self.” She calls these three varieties the Worshipper, the Cowboy, and the Team Loyalist. Each has their own kind of heroism, but they converge in...
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Chapter 12 – The Cowboy: Stoicism
...is a Team Loyalist and Jackie is a Worshipper, Hochschild explains, then Donny is a Cowboy: he “came to endurance […] through a celebration of daring.”
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Hochschild suggests that, in terms of regulation, “Louisiana is a Cowboy kind of state” that carries Donny’s attitude toward risk: enduring risk, even when the risk...
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Chapter 13 – The Rebel: A Team Loyalist with a New Cause
...a part of each type of endurance self: he is “a fighter but not a Cowboy, a man of religion but not a Worshipper, and a Team Loyalist but critical, in...
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