Private First Class

Ball further argues that, for working class families, “choice of institution solely fits around the practicalities of ‘getting by’ rather than into some grander social agenda of ‘new, rare and more distinct goods’” (Ball, 2006, pp. 162: Bourdieu, 1984, pp. 247). The research conducted by Ball (2006) emphasises that “it is not simply a matter of education being of less importance for working class families, our interviewees were very concerned that their children get a good education.” (Ball,…

In Three Stages in Marx’s Thought, Wolfson will attempt to argue that Marx put forward “three disjoint but internally coherent philosophical and social systems of thought” (291). In Marx the Individualist, Wolfson lays out the first system of thought. Marx starts with the axiom that “legitimacy flow from the people to the state” (296). Because of this, the state is the product of active subjects. For this reason, a state should be democratic with elected legislature (296). Marx reasons with…

concept of social class in five New Jersey elementary schools and argues that each of the schools prepares students to fit into the social class that the school is primarily composed of. In each of the five elementary schools Anyon (1980) examined, social class most certainly had pivotal component in the curriculum, but the geographical community also played a key role in the hidden curriculum as well. One of the first items mentioned by Anyon (1980) prior to establishing the social class…

I applied to the counseling program and got accepted. I had the attitude that I am going to start and if it is something I find too difficult, I will stop. After all, getting a Master’s degree was something on my bucket list that I had pulled out. I was retired and didn’t need a degree for a career. When I started in the program, spring semester in 2013 I didn’t know exactly what to expect. As a senior citizen, I knew that I would have to compete with students my children age and younger. I…

social class and gender, the former of which is valued the most in Karl Marx's the Communist Manifesto, and the latter, in Simone de Beauvoir's Introduction from the Second Sex. Two parts will be divided. The first part will focus on the Communist Manifest exclusively, and answer three questions: why Marx thinks that social class is the most significant group identity, how class inequalities between bourgeoisies and proletariats form, and whether proletariat is the most revolutionary class.…

They say that class size doesn’t matter, because an education is only dependent on the focus of the student and the ability of the instructor but I believe class size does matter, and I have first hand information. The size of the class matters, in my opinion because: focus is key to learning, a teacher to student relationship is very important, and the outcome of your education plays a major role for your future. When I transferred from a public high school of 1,600 kids, to a private catholic…

Capitalism, according to Marx, is a mode of production based on private ownership of the means of production. It is a system of social relations in which labour-power is commodified and the driving force of society is the accumulation of capital. Marx theorized that economic systems result in two social classes, one of which holds the power and uses it to oppress the other. In capitalism, this is the bourgeoisie, the capitalists, who own the means of production, and the proletariat who’s labour…

nationality, age, class, and religion, often have very similar ideas on certain issues. Why is that? Now, people really need to think again about the origin of their own ideas, because some ideas are clearly not created by people themselves. More interestingly, as history moves forward, ideas change too. Just before…

Intro In the article “Moving up from the Working Class” Morris and Grimes argue that “early socialization within a class culture has deep and abiding effects”. I would agree with this statement, because as I have always grown up in the working class and I am still in it today. I am trying my best to move up and out of the working class, but it is a very hard thing to do because I still have the mentality of being in the working class. This means I still have all my old habits of buying things…

Davidoff and Hall’s publication Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 (henceforth referred to as Family Fortunes) is a classic example of a work of local history. Davidoff and Hall’s Family Fortunes is a study tracing the changes in class, society and gender relations of the newly emerging middle classes from 1780 over a framework of 70 years. Furthermore, Davidoff and Hall examine in detail these changes through local communities, particular families and…