Reflection On Social Identity And The Fostering Of Social Class

Five things that I learned from reading chapter 1 that were new to me are that; before the interview, the social worker or student who will be doing the interview should take a look around and ask yourself how you would feel coming there. Consideration or prior arrangement should be made if the client is likely to bring a child and if so; is there anything for the child to play with. I thought that this was very important as it speak volume of who the interviewer is. The student does not want to send a negative signal to her interviewer on her first day. Our surroundings project who we are as an individual. The second thing I learned is to stay away from loaded words and clinical jargons. The student must realize that she is talking to a …show more content…
The purpose of this study was for the researcher to solicit the views of the undergraduate students on their awareness of social class identity and the students experience with class inequalities at the institutional level. It also focused on the student understanding of their social identity. The researchers find out challenging the notion students had about what social identity means; it impacts of socialization on one’s social identity group and the way some people benefited from it while others social identity are targeted.
b. I learned that students experience social class at personal and interpersonal level are that, some social identities were targeted and others also experience stereotyping as results of their faith and social identity. Also in interpersonal some African American and middle class; Jewish and upper class felt that they were targeted with stereotype and biases if they acted “White” or acted “Jewish.” In the institutional level, some student experienced that, the social structure or settings was different in terms of power, privileges and oppression that existed in the educational …show more content…
My view on the concepts of social class is we all have different experiences when it comes to the identification of our social class in the society. There are people who privileged or belong to the privilege group in the society and they don’t even seem to know that they are in the privilege group. Some also see only their oppression but don’t recognize their privileges. I finally came to the realization that we cannot talk about privilege in our society without talking about oppression. I also realized that there is a selective generalization that has been connected to specific individuals or groups in our society and which are misleading when it comes to social