Will Barratt

Social Class on Campus

Theories and Manifestations

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Produktbeschreibung

This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyse the dynamics of social class. It will appeal to students, and indeed anyone interested in how class mediates relationships in higher education, both because of its engaging tone, and because it uses the college campus as a microcosm for observing and analysing the concept of class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781579225728
• ISBN-10: 1579225721
• Artikelnr.: 32960072

Autorenporträt

Will Barratt has taught in the Departments of Counseling and Educational Leadership at Indiana State University over the past 20 years. He was the Holmstedt Distinguished Professor in the Bayh College of Education in 2006-2007 and was given the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008. During 1998-1999 he was Associate Dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies before returning to the classroom. He received degrees from Beloit College, Miami University, and The University of Iowa. He lived in Budapest in 1987-1988 and in Beijing in 1995-1996.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements About the author Part I. UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL CLASS 1. A Starting Point Class is more than money
Class is personal
Class is an intercultural experience
Class is individual perception
Class as a tool
A word about precision Class as identity
Class as income and wealth
Class as capital
Class as education
Class as prestige
Class as occupation
Class as culture
Class as a system
Class as privilege and oppression
Class as role
Social Class on Campus
Campus majority social class
Class Is More than Money
A Tale of Five Students. Whitney Page, Louise, Misty, Ursula, And Eleanor
Class bubbles
The cast of characters. Whitney Page
The cast of characters - Louise
The cast of characters - Misty
The cast of characters - Ursula
The cast of characters - Eleanor
What will likely happen to these women?
Money, culture, and social class of origin
Social class contrast and fit on campus
Social Class Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 2. Your Experience and Social Class The Privilege Meme
Where You Start Matters
Starting with boundaries
Starting with individuals
Starting with groups
Starting with politics
Starting somewhere
Where I Start
Historical views of class
Plato and class
Christianity and class
China and class
Hindu class
Native Americans and class4
Mark and Engels on class
Class and Anti-Class
Key Words and Secret Language
In conclusion
Experience
Write a personal classnography
Reflection questions
Discussion questions 3. Class Myths "Class doesn't exist in the USA."
"We are all middle class anyway."
"The working class is disappearing."
"Once you get a degree you are no longer working class."
"Education is the key to upward mobility."
"College is open to anyone who wants to work hard."
"You can't separate class from ethnicity"
"All white people are the same."
"People talk about class because they don't want to confront ethnicity and gender"
"Everyone knows about class"
"The world is a meritocracy"
Myth and reality
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 4. The Social Class Identity Social Class Identity. Development
Social Class Identity. Maturity
Social Class Identity. Transition
Our Three Social Class Identities
Social Class Contrast
Social Class Transition
Managing multiple social class identities
Alternation
Integration
Assimilation
Accommodation
Support for Social Class Transition
Class Passing
Class as Role
Summary
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 5. The Majority Class Student Experience of Class on Campus Choosing how we name classes
Misty Goes to College
So What?
Ursula Goes to College
So What?
Eleanor's Story
So What?
Marking class on campus
The reproduction of class
College as a confirmation experience. The world of accommodation
Campus Class Markers. Fashion
Campus Class Markers. Language
Campus Class Markers. Social Interaction
Campus Class Markers. Organizational Structure
Campus Class Markers. Leadership
Campus Class Markers. Learning Experiences
Campus Class Markers. The Physical Campus
Class Passing
The monoculture campus
The dangers of being the majority
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 6. The Minority Class Student Experience of Class on Campus The lower class experience on campus
College as a conversion experience. The world of assimilation
Whitney Page's Story
So What
Louise's Story
So What
Deficit model of class. Rising up the under class
Class and minority status as stress
College as an evangelical experience
Summary
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 7. The Campus Ecology of Class The Campus Social Class Human Aggregate
Gender and ethnicity
The average
The Campus Social Class Physical Environment
The meaning of objects
The Campus Social Class Organizational Environment
The Campus Social Class Constructed Environment
Summary
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions Part II. MANIFESTATIONS OF SOCIAL CLASS 8. Class as Income and Wealth A case study
Classic views of class groups based on income
Naming income classes
Income as more than income
So what?
Class as wealth
Us and Them. The Middle Income Class and the Other Income Classes
The media fiction wealthy
So what?
Experience
Reflection Question
Discussion Question 9. Class as Capital Bourdieu on Capital
Embodied cultural capital
Objectified cultural capital
Institutionalized cultural capital
Bourdieu on Social Capital
Other kinds of capital
Academic Capital
Leadership Capital
Spiritual, Moral, Values, and Ethical Capital
Language Capital
So What - Implications for Campus
Summary
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 10. Class as Education Social Class and the Campus
The Individual Effects of Education
Summary
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 11. Class as Prestige A Prestige Experience
Your prestige class
Cost and prestige
Ranking and Prestige
Keeping up with the "others"
Prestige and class
Prestige and College
Competition
Prestige in Perspective
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 12. Class as Occupation Income and Occupational Prestige
Occupational Prestige and Social Dominance
Occupations and class summary
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 13. Class as Culture Subcultures and Education
Etiquette
Class, culture, and language
Class, culture, and food
Class, culture, and fashion
Cultures in Competition
Student Cultures, Student Typologies
Faculty Cultures, Faculty Typologies
The Reproduction of Culture
Class, Culture, Privilege, and Oppression
Summary
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 14. Class, Ethnicity, and Gender. More complexity Class and gender
Class and ethnicity
Class, gender, and ethnicity
Experience
Reflection Questions
Discussion Questions 15. Stories Zach's Story
Khou's Story
Christina's Story
Ken's Story
Abe's Story
Discussion Questions 16. What Can Anyone Do? Things you can do about class
Things you can encourage others on your campus do about class References Index