Social class and the inequality of English speakers in a globalized world

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Darvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Capital ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Globalized World

AbstractResponding to observations in ELF research that Anglophone-centric attitudes towards English are eroding among speakers of a younger generation, this paper demonstrates that attitudes towards English can in fact vary among youth of different social class backgrounds. Drawing on a case study of immigrant Filipino adolescents in Vancouver, this paper examines how class differences of these youth impinge on their lived experiences and the material conditions of their migration, shaping how they negotiate their linguistic capital, particularly their use of English. Data illustrate how such conditions shape their dispositions, their sense of agency, and feelings of linguistic confidence and insecurity. Using Darvin and Norton’s (2015. Identity and a model of investment in applied linguistics.

scholarly journals Social Class and The Unequal Digital Literacies of Youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Darvin
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Third ◽  
Educational Implications ◽  
Spatial Configurations

Recognizing the importance of technology to achieve agentive participation in the knowledge economy, this paper examines to what extent social class differences between youth shape their digital literacies. Drawing on a case study of adolescents of contrasting social positions, it discusses how the material and relational differences of home environments, manifested by spatial configurations, parental involvement and peer networks, can help develop diverse practices and dispositions towards technology. By demonstrating how the inequities of digital use can lead to the unequal accumulation of cultural and social capital, this paper concludes with the educational implications of the third digital divide.

Social Class Differences in Complaining Strategies Used by Customers of Central Santosa Finance

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Insan Utama Sinuraya ◽  
Chairunnissa Chairunnissa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Analysis Technique

This study deals with complaining strategies in different social class. The objectives of this study were to find out the types of complaining strategies used by customers as the complainers and the reasons of the customers used complaint strategies. To achieve the objectives, this study was conducted by applying qualitative research. It is a kind of multi-case study. The subjects of this study were the customers of Central Santosa Finance with different social class, namely working class and middle class. And the objects of this research were the utterances which contained complaining strategies uttered by the customers. The data were collected by using content analysis technique. The data were analyzed based on the theory of complaining strategies proposed by Trosborg (1995) and the interview was conducted to get the answer of the reasons why customers used complaint strategies. Based on the results of this study, the customers from working class dominantly used Explicit Blame and Modified Blame as their complaint strategies. While the customers from middle class tended to use Hints as their complaint strategy which meant that customers form working class were more direct in saying their complaints than customers from middle class. The reasons of they used complaint strategies were Situation and Problem.

Identity options: Social class differences in biracial identification

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Townsend ◽  
Stephanie Fryberg ◽  
Hazel Markus ◽  
Clara Wilkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Class Differences

THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF ‘INCURSIONS’: LIVESTOCK, PROTECTED AREAS AND SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS IN THE MARA REGION OF KENYA

Africa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilal Butt
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Domestic Animals ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Mara Region

ABSTRACTAcross the world, the presence of domestic animals in protected areas (PAs) is considered an ‘incursion’ that threatens the economic and ecological viability of these areas. Dominant narratives about incursions inaccurately describe the relationships between people and PAs because they lack adequate contextualization. In this paper, I rely on a political-ecological framework to argue for an alternative narrative. Through a case study from a PA in southern Kenya, I demonstrate how incursions are instead modern co-productions that arise from the intersections between changing political geographies of resource control and variable animal geographies of resource utilization – thus clarifying a long-standing debate about the presence of domestic animals in PAs. I rely on direct empirical and supporting evidence from place-based studies to illustrate the spatial and temporal differences in resource access strategies of wildlife and livestock within and outside the PA. I contrast these against changing land tenure and resource management policies to highlight how livestock movements into PAs are patterned in ways that reflect the changing nature of PA management, the material conditions of the landscape, and the agency of animals. Through these investigations, this paper provides a more accurate and nuanced explanation for livestock movements into PAs.

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