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Sports and sports scholarships offer minorities a way out

Sports and sports scholarships offer minorities a way out that sports are a way out of poverty for poor youth of Color is deeply cherished and continually reinforced in films and televison. Yet this is an extremely rare possibility. Consider the following: How many openings on professional teams are actually available? Take basketball as an […]

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Social Mobility: The idea that one can move from one class position to another.

Common Misconceptions About Class Social Mobility: The idea that one can move from one class position to another. “We live in a classless society where anyone can make it.” From very early on in school we are taught that anyone can make it if they try, and that the West is the land of opportunity.

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Media and class messages. Media is another primary institution

Media and class messages. Media is another primary institution socializing us about what it means to be owning class, middle class, and working class (Leistyna, 2009). Two key elements of this institution in relation to class messaging are the consolidation of media ownership (control by fewer and fewer entities and therefore more homogeneous messaging) and

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Class Socialization

Class Socialization Class is about money and power, but it is also about culture. Different class groups have different cultural norms and patterns associated with them. So how do we each learn our class positions as well as the class positions of others? Or, because class is also a form of our cultural identity, we

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Pyramid of Capitalist System, 1911

Pyramid of Capitalist System, 1911 Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System As workers strategize and use their (limited) resources to pressure 218   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Capitalist_System   corporations for more equitable conditions (via collective action, unionization, work slow-downs), the owners strategize and use their abundant resources to stop them (e.g., union busting, dividing workers from each other via bonuses and privileges

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The system of relative social rank as measured in terms of income, wealth, status, and/or power.

The system of relative social rank as measured in terms of income, wealth, status, and/or power. Class refers to relative social rank in terms of income, wealth, status, and/or power. Classism is the systematic oppression of poor and working people by those who control necessary resources (jobs, wages, education, housing, food, services, medicine, cultural definitions,

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What Is Class?

What Is Class? As with all forms of social division, social class is a human construct. The division of labor that characterizes class did not emerge until the Neolithic era, approximately 8,000–10,000 years ago (Little, 2016; Rueschemeyer, 1986). This period of human history was marked by agricultural advancement and land settlements by human population, prior

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What is Whiteness?

What is Whiteness? Discussion Questions 1. What are the key differences between multicultural education and antiracist education? Discuss each of these differences and provide examples for each. 2. What is Whiteness? The authors claim that Whiteness is organized globally. How? 3. What do the authors mean when they use the term White supremacy? How does

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