White male power and privilege: The relationship between White supremacy and social class.

We examined the relationship between social class and envy, and the role of victim justice sensitivity in this relationship among a group of 1,405 Chinese undergraduates. The students completed measures of subjective social class, victim justice sensitivity, and dispositional envy. The results show that a lower social class was significantly and negatively related to envy and victim justice sensitivity, whereas victim justice sensitivity was significantly and positively related to envy. As predicted, a lower social class was very closely correlated with envy. In addition, individuals with a lower (vs. higher) social class had a greater tendency toward victim justice sensitivity, which, in turn, increased their envy. Overall, our results advance scholarly research on the psychology of social hierarchy by clarifying the relationship between social class and the negative emotion of envy.

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Naturalizing affection, securing property: Family, slavery, and the courts in Antebellum South Carolina, 1830–1860

Studies in American Political Development ◽

10.1017/s0898588x2100002x ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-20

Author(s):

Gwendoline M. Alphonso

Keyword(s):

South Carolina ◽

Political Institutions ◽

Political Development ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Family Relations ◽

White Male ◽

Antebellum South ◽

Court Cases ◽

White Family ◽

Antebellum Period

Abstract The scholarship on race and political development demonstrates that race has long been embedded in public policy and political institutions. Less noticed in this literature is how family, as a deliberate political institution, is used to further racial goals and policy purposes. This article seeks to fill this gap by tracing the foundations of the political welding of family and race to the slave South in the antebellum period from 1830 to 1860. Utilizing rich testimonial evidence in court cases, I demonstrate how antebellum courts in South Carolina constructed a standard of “domestic affection” from the everyday lives of southerners, which established affection as a natural norm practiced by white male slaveowners in their roles as fathers, husbands, and masters. By constructing and regulating domestic affection to uphold slavery amid the waves of multiple modernizing forces (democratization, advancing market economy, and household egalitarianism), Southern courts in the antebellum period presaged their postbellum role of reconstructing white supremacy in the wake of slavery's demise. In both cases the courts played a formative role in naturalizing family relations in racially specific ways, constructing affection and sexuality, respectively, to anchor the white family as the bulwark of white social and political hegemony.

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Female agency in the films of Jean Renoir

French Cultural Studies ◽

10.1177/09571558211012967 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095715582110129

Author(s):

Barry Nevin

Keyword(s):

Gender Relations ◽

Lower Class ◽

Female Identity ◽

Gender Representation ◽

Female Characters ◽

Female Agency ◽

Close Analysis ◽

Male Power ◽

Jean Renoir ◽

The Relationship

Although Jean Renoir’s oeuvre has been extensively debated since the emergence of the politique des auteurs in the pages of Cahiers du cinéma, his representation of gender relations has sustained less discussion than his signature formal style. This article posits that Renoir’s films provide a valuable means of identifying how gender, specifically female identity, affects temporal trajectories in cinema. First, it illustrates Gilles Deleuze’s understanding of crystallisation and situates it in relation to current scholarship on gender representation in the director’s work. Second, it conducts a close analysis of the relationship between female identity and crystallisation through a close analysis of the central female characters of La Règle du jeu (1939) and The Golden Coach (1952). This article ultimately argues that whether these characters belong to an upper-or lower-class stratum, they are subordinated to male power, which plays a determining role in the range of potential futures available to them.

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Relationship between Personal Prayer and School-Related Attitudes among 11–16-Year-Old Girls

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3.787 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 78 (3) ◽

pp. 787-793 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Alice Montgomery ◽

Leslie J. Francis

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Secondary School ◽

Semantic Differential ◽

Attitudes Toward School ◽

Single Sex ◽

English Music ◽

Attitude Toward School ◽

Catholic Secondary School ◽

Personal Prayer ◽

The Relationship

A sample of 392 girls between the ages of 11 and 16 years attending a state-maintained single-sex Catholic secondary school completed six semantic differential scales of attitudes toward school and toward lessons concerned with English, music, religion, mathematics, and sports, together with information about paternal employment and their personal practice of prayer. The relationship between personal prayer and attitude toward school after controlling for age and social class was positive.

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Generational Change and Continuity in British Partisan Choice

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123400000764 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 364-368

Author(s):

Paul R. Abramson

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Political Life ◽

Generational Change ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Relationship

The strong relationship between social class and partisan choice is one of the most extensively documented facts of British political life; but that relationship declined markedly during the 1960s, as Butler and Stokes have shown. Their lucid documentation of the declining class–party nexus is among the major findings of the second edition of their book, and, as class-based partisanship is particularly low among the young, many might conclude that the relationship between class and party will continue to decline in future. It would, however, be premature to reach this conclusion.

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The Relationship between the Protestant Ethic and Social Class for Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Americans

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1983.53.2.645 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 645-646 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Sandra Virginia Gonsalves ◽

Godwin Anthony Bernard

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Middle Class ◽

Protestant Ethic ◽

The Mean ◽

The Relationship ◽

Ethic Scale

A comparison of the endorsement patterns on the Protestant Ethic scale indicated that the mean for 20 Afro-Caribbeans exceeded that of 22 Afro-Americans. However, middle-class individuals from the latter group gave most favorable endorsements of the items.

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Social Class and Wellbeing among Staff and Students in Higher Education Settings: Mapping the Problem and Exploring Underlying Mechanisms

10.31234/osf.io/f7wmt ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Isla Dougall ◽

Mario Weick ◽

Milica Vasiljevic

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Social Class ◽

Social Factors ◽

Unique Contribution ◽

Staff Members ◽

Class Differences ◽

High Social Class ◽

Lower Social Class ◽

Underlying Mechanisms ◽

The Relationship

Within Higher Education (HE), lower social class staff and students often experience poorer wellbeing than their higher social class counterparts. Previous research conducted outside educational contexts has linked social class differences in wellbeing with differences in the extent to which low and high social class individuals feel respected (i.e., status), in control (i.e., autonomy), and connected with others (i.e., inclusion). However, to our knowledge, there has been no research that has investigated these factors within HE settings. Furthermore, inclusion, status and autonomy are correlated, yet little is known about how these factors contribute to wellbeing simultaneously, and independently, of one another. To fill these gaps, we report the results of two studies; firstly with HE students (Study 1; N = 305), and secondly with HE staff (Study 2; N = 261). Consistently across studies, reports of poor wellbeing were relatively common and more than twice as prevalent amongst lower social class staff and students compared to higher social class staff and students. Inclusion, status and autonomy each made a unique contribution and accounted for the relationship between social class and wellbeing (fully amongst students, and partially amongst staff members). These relationships held across various operationalisations of social class and when examining a range of facets of wellbeing. Social class along with inclusion, status and autonomy explained a substantial 40% of the variance in wellbeing. The present research contributes to the literature exploring how social class intersects with social factors to impact the wellbeing of staff and students within HE.

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Temporal Emotions and Historical Vulnerability: Music as a Vehicle of Ideology in Cold War and Peste Noire

Emotions History Culture Society ◽

10.1163/2208522x-02010115 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 87-102

Author(s):

Louise D’Arcens

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Middle Ages ◽

White Supremacy ◽

First Century ◽

White People ◽

Black Metal ◽

Ideological Differences ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

The Relationship

Abstract This essay focuses on the Polish film Cold War and the oeuvre of the French nationalist black metal band Peste Noire, examining them as twenty-first-century texts that disclose music’s capacity to solicit emotion in the service of ideology. Despite their aesthetic and ideological differences, each text demonstrates the importance of temporal emotions – that is, emotions that register a heightened sense of the relationship between present, past and future. Each text portrays these emotions’ ideological significance when attached to ideas of a national past. Dwelling on Peste Noire’s racist-nationalist use of the medieval past, the essay explores music as a medium for emotional performances in which white people appear to convey vulnerability while actually reconfirming white supremacy. Peste Noire’s idiosyncratic performance of aggressive vulnerability is a temporal emotion that self-consciously lays claim to a long emotional tradition reaching back to the French Middle Ages.

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THE ENDURING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN MALE VIOLENT VICTIMIZATION, 1973–2010

Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race ◽

10.1017/s1742058x18000097 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 69-87 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Janet L. Lauritsen ◽

Karen Heimer ◽

Joseph B. Lang

Keyword(s):

Race And Ethnicity ◽

White Male ◽

Ethnic Disparities ◽

Violent Victimization ◽

Crime Victimization ◽

Individual Level ◽

Black And White ◽

White Males ◽

Poverty Status ◽

The Relationship

AbstractLatino and Black males are more likely to suffer serious violent victimization compared to White males, and it is likely that economic disadvantage and other individual level differences play a key role in these disparities. This study of self-reported data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (1973–2010) is the first effort to assess three important issues: 1) the extent to which the relationship between serious violent victimization and race and ethnicity can be accounted for by age, location of residence, poverty status, and employment; 2) whether these factors have similar influences among Black, White, and Latino males; and 3) whether the net risk for violence associated with race and ethnicity has diminished over time. Our results show that disparities between Black and White male violent victimization decrease approximately 70% once age, location of residence, poverty status, and employment are taken into account, and that differences between Latinos and White males are fully accounted for by these factors. Poverty status is the only factor that varies in the strength of its association with violence across groups. We also find little evidence to suggest that the association between race, ethnicity and victimization risk changed significantly from 1973 to 2010, once other factors are considered. Despite notable declines in violence over this time period, Black and White disparities in male victimization persist over the past four decades; however, the relationship between poverty status and violence has increased some for Black and White males.

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