SOC 0832 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Substance Abuse
24 Jun 2018
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Class Identity
●How do we experience class and class inequality? What aspects of our lives are affected?
●Who defines our class identity
○Classes do not exist as a neutral entities that produce inequalities
○We create categories of people; we construct differences
○Class categories are produced in relations of privilege and inequality
●There are external markers of class but they do not create class identity
●The lower classes behavior is judged by the upper class
○Bourdieu
○Merit ideology
●By criticizing and differentiation from the lower classes, the middle classes are
normalized and gain privileges
●How is the behavior of individuals of the lower class judged today in the US
●Do individuals in the lower class judge those of the upper class
●Median income rose by 5.2% but
○Methodology is different
○HOusehold incomestill lower than in 2007
●Poverty Threshold
●24,600
●2 adults and 2 children
●The culture of poverty
○Poor people are unmotivated
○Poor parents are uninvolved in children's edu because they don’t value edu
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