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Category Archives: Social class
Gender Stratified Monopoly: Why Do I Earn Less and Pay More?
A modified version of Monopoly has long been used as a simulation exercise to teach inequality. Versions of Modified Monopoly (MM) have touched on minority status relative to inequality but without an exploration of the complex interaction between minority status … Continue reading
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Interactive effects of academic competition and social class on achievement
As compared to continuing-generation students, first-generation students are struggling more at a university. In the present article, we question the unconditional nature of such a phenomenon and argue that it depends on structural competition. Indeed, most academic departments use harsh … Continue reading
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Class Disparities in Youth Civic Engagement
Recent research finds that there is a growing class gap in levels of civic engagement among young whites in the United States. Much of the literature on civic engagement focus on the individual‐ and family‐level factors related to civic engagement. … Continue reading
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Pierre Bourdieu – Capital simbólico y clases sociales
En esta breve pero densa pieza, escrita para un número especial del journal L’Arc dedicado al historiador medieval Georges Duby (cuya gigantesca obra Bourdieu admiraba y se basaba por su escrupulosa genealogía de la estructura mental y social de la … Continue reading
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La Centralidad Política de la Clase y la Izquierda Académica Actual
“Estos nuevos guerreros no clasistas de cierta izquierda académica actual aceptan en la práctica la construcción neoliberal del universo social. Tampoco para ellos hay clases o política de clases; simplemente, un mundo postmoderno en el que la fragmentación, la diversidad … Continue reading
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Cognitive Psychology – from the Bourgeois Individual to Class Struggle
At their best, radical critiques of cognitive psychology call into question the atomistic, mechanistic, and representational foundations of modern epistemology. Despite some notable exceptions, critics of cognitive psychology have rarely ventured into the domain of political economy. Indeed, the overwhelming … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois individual, Class struggle, Cognitive psychology, Critical psychology, Political economy, Social class
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Class, Precarity, and Anxiety under Neoliberal Global Capitalism
Circumstantial precarity correlates with anxiety, but the relationship is complex because people often quell anxiety by denying precarity. This article focuses in particular on how in this neoliberal era such psychological responses to precarity are class variegated and articulated with … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Denial, Neoliberalism, Precariat, Social class, Solidarity
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Transmitting Class across Generations
The voluminous literature on intergenerational transmission often engages with the transmission of poverty and poor educational attainment. This article reviews and questions the assumptions made within this literature. In particular, the paper seeks to engage with the central importance of … Continue reading
Social Class and Educational Inequality: The Impact of Parents and Schools
Social class is often seen as an intractable barrier to success, yet a number of children from disadvantaged backgrounds still manage to show resilience and succeed against the odds. This book presents the findings from fifty Child and Family Case … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Education, Inequality, Parents, Social class, Social disadvantage
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Enseignement Supérieur et Classes Sociales : Production et Reproduction
À l’heure des offensives néolibérales contre l’enseignement supérieur, Panagiotis Sotiris revient sur le rôle politique des universités dans la reproduction des rapports de classes. Si la légitimité de la classe dominante est constamment reproduite à travers « l’État intégral », … Continue reading
Posted in Hegemony, Higher education, Social class, University
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