SOCIOL 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Reproduction, Social Stratification, Social Class
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Marx- your class determined by your relationship to the means of production. Gained access as college student working with an enrichment program. The belief that one reaches a socially perceived definition of success through hard work and education. Factors such as gender, race/ ethnicity, ses, social networks, neighborhoods or geography are secondary to hard work. Or, in some cases, irrelevant in the pursuit of success. The boys in macleod"s study both subscribe to and reject dominant achievement ideology. If individuals don"t (even) aspire to middle class jobs they are unlikely to achieve them. Overall structure of class relations in one generation continue to the next through. Leveled aspirations: mechanisms through which class inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next. The social class into which one is born has a massive influence on where one will end up. 6 large, squat, buildings and 1 high rise.
