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31 Cards in this Set
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Class |
relative social rank in terms of income, wealth, education, occupational status, and/or power |
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Cultural Aspects |
-understanding of world and where you fit -how we perceive our choices -ideas, behaviors, attitudes, values -think, feel, act, dress -education and job you attain -determines when you marry and when you become a parent |
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Class: Taboo? |
-class and money more taboo than discussing sexuality -children learn not to discuss family income -shame associated with being too rich or too poor |
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Class Continuum |
ranking of individuals/families in a society by income, wealth, education, occupational status, or power |
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Class is relative: |
experience varies depending on whether we look up or down the continuum |
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Advantaged |
(ruling class): -hold positions of power in major institutions of society (President) |
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Mostly Advantaged |
(owning class, middle class): - owning class/rich: don't have to work; income producing assets -upper middle class: doctors -middle class: average professor -lower middle class |
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Mostly Targeted |
(working class): -income dependent on hourly wages (BS degrees) |
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Disadvantaged |
(Poor): -income persistently inconsistent to meet basic needs |
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Status: |
social status can be understood as the degree of honor or prestige attached to one's position in society |
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Class Indicator: |
materials or experiential factor that reflects an individual's class -ex. type of car, size of house, how many vacations |
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Classism: |
-the institutional, cultural, and individual set of practices and beliefs that assign differential value to people according to the socio-economic class -economic system that creates excessive inequality and causes basic human needs to go unmet |
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individual classism: |
classism on a personal or individual level |
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instituational classism: |
manifestation in the various institutions of society -healthcare |
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cultural classism: |
manifestation through our cultural norms, practices, and ideology Rich= worked hard poor= lazy |
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History |
commonly taught from privilege/ upper class perspective -ex. industrialization, modern "productivity" |
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History of Resistance to Classism Invisible |
-strikes, boycotts, slow downs, labor organizing -labor movement: organized industries; 35% unionization rate by 1954 -2005: only 12% of workers in union -media owned by the elite |
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Class privilege: |
-Tangible or intangible unearned advantages of higher-class status
- personal contacts with employers - health care - inherited money |
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Intersections of class and other forms of oppression: |
poor disproportionately: -racism -people with disabilities (ableism) -sexism -ageism -seniors poverty level higher than middle aged |
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Classism: Non-economic Aspects |
classists stereotypes portrayed in media:
-wealthy -upper-middle class: normal -working class -poor: criminals, tragic victims, givers of wisdom |
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"Culture of Poverty" myth: |
Lewis study on small mexican community 1961: "frequent violence, lack of sense of history, neglect for planning for the future, ect" |
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Culture of Poverty |
myth: poor people are unmotivated and have weak work ethic myth: poor people are linguistically deficient |
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Prejudice in language: |
Trailer trash
Ghetto Red neck HustlerLow class vs. classy |
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Prejudice in treatment of service workers |
creating unnecessary messes for them to clean up |
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Poor and working class: |
-stress of living in a society that looks down on them |
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internalized classism: |
acceptance and justification of classism by working class and poor people -feeling inferior to higher-class people -hostility and blame toward other working class or poor people -belief that classest institutions/policies are fair |
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Middle class and upper middle class: |
internalized classism: feelings of superiority to people lower on the class spectrum -rationalization of classist policies and intitutions |
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Wealthy: |
-Difficulties trusting others motives
-Fear that others want to connect because of $$$ -Entitlement and arrogance make it difficult to connect across class -Children face isolation :Raised by nannies :Boarding schools :See parents infrequently |
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meritocracy: |
government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability
-Innate abilities, working hard, good attitude, moral character, & integrity |
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Blame |
-BlamingPeople on welfare for budget
-Men of color for crime -Immigrants for taking away jobs -Women and LGBT for breakdown of nuclear family -Jewish labeled as controlling banks and media -Foreign countries for taking jobs |
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reality |
classism is getting worse |
