Institutionalized Coherence Summary

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The Institutionalization of Coherence: “Families are the primary locus of institutionalized coherence” (Pearce, 1989, p. 69). Additionally, “children are voracious interpreters, remembering with awesome detail the patterns between their parents, their parents’ commentaries about others drives and relatives, and modes of expressing love, anger, hate, and frustration” (Pearce, 1989, p. 69). Children look up to their families so that they know how to act, interact, and communicate with others. Children tend to mirror their families practices, therefore, if a parent yells at others when talking to them, the child will more than likely do the same. There is no doubt that in Hillbilly Elegy, Vance learned how to be a Hillbilly from none other than