Introduction. Social Class and Family Patterns in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Patterns

Can “Taste” Be Separated from Social Class?

Food Fights ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
S. Margot Finn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Population ◽  
Apparent Contradiction

For the last two decades the United States has witnessed the rise of the “foodie” movement, and yet this movement has not brought about widespread change among general American population. Margot Finn argues that this apparent contradiction can be explained by the fact that most food conscientiousness is elitist; it is driven not by any underlying progressive ideology, but by a desire of culturally elite consumers to distinguish themselves from the general populace. Thus, taste, cannot be separated from social class.

Ariel and Buzz Lightyear are Coming to School

2011 ◽  
pp. 96-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Sterling Henward
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Preschool Teachers ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Environments ◽  
Technology In The Classroom ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Class Play ◽  
Culture Technology

This chapter will examine how preschool teachers can facilitate the use of popular culture oriented technology in the classroom. Acknowledging that ideology and social class play a major role in the inclusion/ rejection of popular culture technology children interact with in the United States, this chapter outlines the approaches teachers can take in understanding (and in some cases incorporating) popular culture technology into the classroom to more effectively bridge home and school environments.

Gender, Race, Social Class and Information Technology

2009 ◽  
pp. 1729-1735
Author(s):  
Myungsook Klassen ◽  
Russell Stockard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Underrepresentation Of Women ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Technology Positions

The issue of the underrepresentation of women in the information technology workforce has been the subject of a number of studies and the gender gap was an issue when the digital divide dominated discourse about women’s and minority groups’ use of the Internet However, a broader view is needed. That perspective would include the relation of women and IT in the communities in which they live as well as the larger society. The information society that has emerged includes the United States and the globalized economy of which it is an integral part. Women and minorities such as African Americans and Latinos are underrepresented in computer science (CS) and other information technology positions in the United States. In addition, while they areno longer numerically underrepresented in access to computers and the Internet – as of 2000, (Gorski, 2001) - they continue to enjoy fewer benefits available through the medium than white boys and men. The following article explores the diversity within women from the perspectives of race, ethnicity and social class in North America, mainly United States. The technology gender and racial gap persists in education and in the IT workforce. A broader and deeper look at women’s position in relation to the increasingly techno-centric society reveals that women may have reached equality in access, but not equity in academic study and job opportunities.

The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 961-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Foner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
First Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Family ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
Cultural Legacies ◽  
The Way

This article examines the way family and kinship patterns change in the process of immigration — and why. Offering an interpretative synthesis, it emphasizes the way first generation immigrants to the United States fuse together the old and new to create a new kind of family life. The family is seen as a place where there is a dynamic interplay between structure, culture, and agency. New immigrant family patterns are shaped by cultural meanings and social practices immigrants bring with them from their home countries as well as social, economic and cultural forces in the United States.

scholarly journals Anglicisms and calques in upper social class in pre-revolutionary Cuba (1930–1959): A sociolinguistic analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Antonio Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geographical Proximity ◽  
Print Advertising ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Cuban Spanish ◽  
Socioeconomic Stratum ◽  
Social Events

<p>The geographical proximity and socioeconomic dependence on the United States brought about a deep rooted anglicization of the Cuban Spanish lexis and social strata, especially throughout the Neocolonial period (1902–1959). This study is based on the revision of a renowned newspaper of that time, Diario de la Marina, and the corresponding elaboration of a corpus of English-induced loanwords. Diario de la Marina particularly targeted upper social class, and only crónicas sociales (society pages’ columns) and print advertising were revised because of their fully descriptive texts, which encoded the ruling class ideology and consumerism. The findings show that there existed a high number of lexical and cultural anglicisms in the sociolect in question, and that the sociolinguistic anglicization was openly embraced by the upper socioeconomic stratum, entailing a differentiating sign of sophistication and social stratification. Likewise, a number of the anglicisms collected, particularly those related with social events, are unused in contemporary Cuban Spanish, which suggests a major semantic shifting in this sociolect after 1959.</p>

A Study of Depiction of Specific Characteristics of Characters with Disability in Film

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Keith Byrd
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Family Membership ◽  
Age Category

Descriptions of films produced and distributed in the United States were used to analyze a number of variables associated with characters who have disabilities. Sixtyseven characters were depicted as disabled in 53 out of 302 films produced. Variables studied included major versus minor role, gender, normalcy of personality, attractiveness, victim or hero status, outcome, whether socially related, institutionalization, family membership, social class, employment status, age category, and disability:

scholarly journals Classes, Strata and Parties in West Germany and the United States

1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Segal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Western Democracies

As a major socio-political doctrine in the industrializing West, Marxism has had great impact on die research and theory of political sociology and behavioral political science. Particularly, a great deal of research energy has been expended on establishing the nature and degree of the relationship between social class and political partisanship in Western democracies.

scholarly journals The Ties Allowed to Bind: Kinship Legalities and Migration Restriction in the Interwar Americas

2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 191-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Putnam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Family Patterns ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Family ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
New System

AbstractNew immigration restrictions in the United States and elsewhere in the 1920s and 1930s made legal entry dependent on specific kinship formalities. This article explores the impact of the new system through a study of British Caribbean migrants. Because family patterns and the place of church and state sanction within them varied greatly by class—here, as in many parts of the world—the result was a curtailment of mobility that affected elites very little, and working-class would-be migrants enormously. In order to elucidate de facto patterns of exclusion, the author concludes, historians of transnational labor must begin paying more attention to the work “family” does.

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