SOCI 371 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Argumentation Theory, Blue-Collar Worker, Ethnography

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Families and Class-Invisible Inequalities
Social class= individuals who occupy similar position in economic system of production
Difference between income and wealth- wealth=everything you own minus debt.
Being broke is temporary, being poor is a constant continuum.
Class is stratified
Elites: have generational wealth. Their wealth feeds into the economy in a way that shapes governments.
Stable in their class location.
Upper Class- wealth is not generational.
Upper Middle Class- Professionals who generate more wealth than debt. May or may not be stable in
their class location. ex tenured doctors and lawyers, CEOs, upper management
Lower Middle Class- Professionals, but who are not at the level of the upper middle class professionals ex
teachers Class location solely depends on income.
Working class- blue collar workers, may or may not have steady employment, benefits, economic safety
net
Poor, underclass- outside of the economy, no stable employment and are usually under the low income
threshold.
Middle class status is very unstable because of the debt we have accumulated.
Reading E- How social class create distinctive parenting styles in the context of the united states
Middle class- ‘concerted conservation’- parents who had professional jobs and both parents had college
degrees. Actively engaged in the lives of their children, spent a lot of time in child rearing. Organized
most of the day for their children. They did a combination of permissive and authoritative parenting,
constant back and forth from the children and the parents about the needs of the child. They were
involved in the institutions that their children were a part of. Kids often interacted with a very
homogeneous social group.
Working class parents- ‘natural growth parenting’- parents still cared deeply for their children. Working
class parents had less interference in their children's lives. The parents did not organize the children’s
leisure time. Authoritarian style parenting- parents told their children what to do. Stronger connections to
the community.
How does Concerted Cultivation affect children? Positive- Children learn how to negotiate not only with
their peers but also with adults and people in authority. They build social networks, within the institutions
they interact with. They learn to ask for things they think they deserve. They learn to advocate for
themselves and their rights. Negative- They develop a sense of entitlement-individual development over
collective development. They do not form strong kin ties.
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