Social Class and Domesticity

2018 ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Ann Oakley
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Class Difference ◽  
Present Sample ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social Class Difference

This chapter traces the patterns of domesticity in the present sample of housewives. These findings are tied in with assertions about social class differences in domesticity which abound in much of the literature dealing with women's place in the family. As the study indicates, there is no social class difference in the frequency with which housewives are satisfied or dissatisfied with their work. The predominant feeling is one of dissatisfaction — twenty-eight of the forty women come out as dissatisfied. If education is taken instead of social class, there is still no difference between groups of women: equal proportions of those educated to sixteen and beyond are satisfied and dissatisfied with housework.

Social Class Difference in Response to Christmas Cards

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 573-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenifer Kunz
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
High Status ◽  
Class Difference ◽  
Social Class Difference

In a total of 590 Christmas cards sent perception of status was important for both the sender and the receiver. High status of the sender increased the response rate significantly, especially among the “blue-collar” receivers.

scholarly journals Age differences explain social class differences in students’ friendship at university: Implications for transition and retention.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Working Class Students ◽  
Social Class Difference

The present research tested the hypotheses that (a) working-class students have fewer friends at university than middle-class students, and (b) this social class difference occurs because working-class students tend to be older than middle-class students. A sample of 376 first-year undergraduate students from an Australian university completed an online survey that contained measures of social class and age as well as quality and quantity of actual and desired friendship at university. Consistent with predictions, age differences significantly mediated social class differences in friendship. The Discussion focuses on potential policy implications for improving working-class students’ friendships at university in order to improve their transition and retention.

When the Tears Just Pop Out of Your Eyes: Reconfiguring Social-Classed Literacies through a Posthuman Teacher Education Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 (13) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Stephanie Jones ◽  
Breanne Huston ◽  
Karen Spector
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽  
Social Class Difference ◽  
Space Material ◽  
Teacher Education Pedagogy

This chapter draws on theories of new materialisms that assume the discursive (language, ideology, emotions) and the material (physical space, material objects, bodies) are always entangled and act together to produce phenomena. We use these theoretical concepts to persuade readers that the ways we perceive, judge, and discriminate based on social-class difference are literacies that we acquire and produce across time and space. The authors argue that these literacies are acquired by the body through our material-discursive intra-actions and are often felt viscerally, even when we don't have access to language appropriate for articulating what we know. We use vignettes from teacher education courses to support a call for tending to the body, space, social-classed texts, and emotions in the design of curriculum and pedagogy aimed at approaches to teaching and learning that are sensitive to social class.

scholarly journals Recorded Participant Ethnography in Family Homes: Children, Social Class, and the Role of the Researcher

2020 ◽  
Vol 146 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Holly Hargis
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Child Socialization ◽  
Social Milieu ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up

Although ethnography has been a methodology used for years by anthropologists and sociologists, few researchers have entered the homes of children for extended periods of time in order to observe childhood and childrearing practices. The methodology discussed in this article notably permits the researcher to observe child socialization among family members first-hand. Based on seven-months of ethnographic observations among four families from differing social backgrounds in the Ile-de-France region of France, the article discusses how this recorded participant ethnography was set up. The article shows that the researcher held different roles in the families and that these roles varied according to social milieu. Through first analyzing the conditions of these observations among the families, the article provides empirical evidence of the social differentiation of children's daily lives.

Kitchen sink erotica: Working-class lads, nudity, aspiration and spectatorship in modern British culture and fashion photography

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itai Doron
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Class Difference ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fashion Photography ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Naked Body ◽  
British Culture

This article examines the subject and visual representation of the English workingclass lad as both an identification figure for young, modern-day fashion aficionados and a fantasy figure to a predominantly gay audience. It pays special attention to the character’s clothed and naked body, and its performance down the runway; in recent fashion editorials and British-made gay porn. The article investigates how mostly male British artists view and promote working-class male imagery and specifically how fashion photography of the past two decades frames, produces and articulates stories about social class and class difference in the context of masculinity and nudity, and what do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration in multiracial, present day Britain. By linking the current fashion industry’s fascination with working-class imagery with a similar cultural trend in 1960s Britain, the research aims to establish that today’s fashion image makers share similar tendencies with British Social Realist writers and filmmakers in romanticizing the working class, while sticking to a similar, fabricated aesthetic. This enduring fascination for working-class heroes and all things ‘street’ could become problematic when contextualized with industries and commercial ventures such as fashion, and the promotion of clothing and advertising.

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