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Sherell Thompson Classism in the African American Community SOC3349 University of Houston How are African Americans categorized by classism in the Houston area? Class Action defines classism as “differential treatment based on social class or perceived social class. Classism is the systematic oppression of a subordinated class group to an advantage and strengthens the dominant class groups. It’s the systematic assignment of characteristics of worth and ability based on social class.”…

Social identity, the classification and organization of heterogeneous people based on physical characteristics, is perhaps, one of the most prominent abstraction used in modern discourse. The need to belong to a group has increased; though identification has played a role in how we perceive ourselves and those around us, unfortunately at least one group is put at a disadvantage due to the categorized label that society condemns them off. In Charles Cunningham’s article, To Watch the Faces of the…

Sharing the American Dream On its fourth season with CBS, 2 Broke Girls, came to television at a time when it was needed. In 2011, America had been faced with the economy taking a downward spiral and American viewers started to possibly find the millionaires and their Kardashians unappealing. Max Black and Caroline Channing, the two female protagonist of the show, share the character arc and ideology of working hard to achieve what they desire. The two young ladies, both in their mid-twenties,…

Written word had a huge impact on the new German Empire in the 19th century. With illiteracy rates decreasing, written word continued to gain a large audience. According to Berghahn (2005) it seem like newspapers, books, journals, and pamphlets demonstrated that there was a “functioning public sphere” within Germany society that was not active previously. The authoritarian society that could censor media at will was no longer effective as before. However, the authorities still were eager to…

last few decades its effects on the stratification of socioeconomic classes has become more and more apparent. The divide between classes has been a topic of interest for many sociologists such as Karl Marx, who defined two distinct classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. However, most sociologists deem this stratification oversimplified. This globally interconnected economy has been revealed to play a large role in the complexification of classes, that is, it facilitates the existence of …

“The Consequences of the Criminal Justice Pipeline and Latino Masculinity” is a research paper in which minority youth in Oakland, California are studied in order to determine the effect of heightened policing techniques on gendered practices. The author is able to make conclusions based on observations made while doing field research and interviews. Rios’ main argument is that the enhanced policing, surveillance, and punitive treatment of youth of color facilitate the development of gendered…

Different social class are serious problems, income, races cultures and gender are all reasons to produce it. “Looking For Work” written by Gary Soto. This is an article that described his child-hood experience. Little boys watching the TV show that opened a new door to a better life. He wants to become a middle-class person. He wants to live in a middle-class style family. There-fore, he gets ready to work. In his mind work means earn money, then he can change his family. However, his mother…

Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Print. 537-548 SUMMARY Lareau suggests that social class has an important impact on the cultural logic of childrearing (Page 537). She brings up the term; ‘concerted cultivation’ as a way to describe how both white and black middle-class parents raise their children. This is a type of parenting where the parents attempt to nurture their child’s talents by enrolling them in numerous age-specific organized…

that had little effect on Marx’ lifetime however, it sparked enormous change in the future. Within the piece Marx outlines the two major classes, the proletariat or working class and the bourgeoisie or ruling class. He makes a bold claim that all previous history is the history of the proletariat and bourgeoisie class struggle, listing a number of historical examples. Marx believes that the conditions for the proletariat has worsened after the industrial…

UNEQUAL CHILDHOOD A lot of studies have been done on family origin, class or status in society and life economic wellbeing, but no studies throw more light on the processes through which inequality is represented or portrayed like Annette Lareau 's Unequal Childhood. Essentially, the process of sorting as individuals is by economic, social and cultural class, which begins at childhood and never really ends. We may be oblivious that we are pushing the process along, but in fact, we are doing…