Measuring the Social-Class Status of Negro Children in the Elementary and High School

1951 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter I. Murray
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Status

“You’re sitting on a hot soccer field drinking Gatorade…I’m sitting in a yacht club just enjoying the view, enjoying the drinks”: Parental reproduction of social class through school sport sailing

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 987-1005
Author(s):  
Anne Schmitt ◽  
Matthew Atencio ◽  
Gaëlle Sempé
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Dominant Class ◽  
School Sport ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Tactical Decision ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Teachers And Parents

This paper examines the utilisation of light sailing within school sport programmes in Western France and California. Sailing has been identified as a key activity for upper class participation in both France and the USA because it heavily involves intellectual skills, including preparation, tactical decision making, leadership and problem solving. Following on from this, we develop the social class concepts of Pierre Bourdieu (1979) to demonstrate how cultural and economic capitals are sought after and reproduced in comparative school sailing environments to maintain upper class social values and positions. We highlight interview commentary and field observations from a 1.5-year comparative ethnographic study of youth sailors and supporting adults, including coaches, teachers and parents. Our findings indicate that Western French and Californian upper class student sailors and their adult supporters are differentiated from each other in terms of how they prioritise either economic or cultural capital acquisition. This finding aligns with Bourdieusian conceptual distinctions of culturally dominant class and economically dominant class values and membership. Upper class status reinforcement and capital reproduction in these divergent ways reflects distinctive national cultures as well as social and economic structures underpinning youth/school sport and educational participation.

Perceptions of Low-Status Workers and the Maintenance of the Social Class Status Quo

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Volpato ◽  
Luca Andrighetto ◽  
Cristina Baldissarri
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Status

Reexamining Social Class Differences in the Availability and the Educational Utility of Parental Social Capital

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Ream ◽  
Gregory J. Palardy
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Status

Emergent ethnographic research disentangles “social capital” from other components of social class (e.g., material and human capital) to show how class-stratified parental social networks exacerbate educational inequality among schoolchildren. The authors build upon this research by using survey data to reexamine whether certain forms of parental social capital create educational advantages for socioeconomically privileged students vis-à-vis their less economically fortunate peers. By drawing a distinction between the availability of social capital and its convertibility, the authors find that whereas larger stocks of parental social capital accompany higher rungs on the social class ladder, its educational utility is less clearly associated with class status. A possible exception to this pattern pertains to the educational utility of middle-class parents’ ideas about the collective efficacy of influencing school policies and practices. At issue is whether a more inclusive understanding of the material and sociological reasons for educational inequality can spur educationally useful social exchange among parents across social class boundaries.

Making Sense of the Social, Making the ‘Social Sense’: The Development of Children’s Perception and Judgement of Social Class

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 003803852097780
Author(s):  
Dieter Vandebroeck
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Children First ◽  
Visual Methodology

This article presents an exercise in ‘cognitive class analysis’ by tackling the question of when young children first develop the ability to perceive and judge stereotypical representation of class identity. With the aid of a specifically designed visual methodology, 82 children aged 5 to 12, were asked to combine a series of figures into a set of ‘class families’, to assign different amounts of money to these families, to attribute an occupational status to the parents of each family and to indicate their most and least likeable family. Results show that children prove capable of perceiving and judging class stereotypes at a younger age than previous studies have suggested. A considerable number of 5- and 6-year-olds already demonstrate the ability to classify people on the basis of differences in dress and appearance and effectively recognize these classifications as based on differences in class position. In addition, visible markers of class-status also appear to play a role in shaping children’s preferences for different types of families and playmates.

“One Day I’m Going to be Really Successful”: The Social Class Politics of Videos Made for the “It Gets Better” Anti-Gay Bullying Project

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Meyer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The Social ◽  
Big City ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Lgbt People

The author examines the “It Gets Better” (IGB) anti-gay bullying project, focusing particular attention on social class narratives in videos made for the campaign. Results, based on a content analysis of 128 videos, indicate that individuals most commonly began by describing negative experiences during adolescence before shifting to a narrative of progress, emphasizing how their life had improved since high school. In doing so, the makers of the videos drew on class-based standards of success such as traveling, attending college, and moving to a big city. At the same time, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people sometimes stigmatized the bullies in classist ways. Thus, as IGB encourages makers of the videos to underscore their financial success and to condemn the perpetrators of anti-gay bullying, the project reinforces the cultural elements of neoliberalism.

Social Class and Educational Attainment: Do Blacks Benefit Less from Increases in Parents’ Social Class Status?

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Bumpus ◽  
Zimife Umeh ◽  
Angel L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Family Structure ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Class Status

Classic and contemporary studies show that greater social class status is associated with higher levels of education for youth. However, racialized processes might constrain the benefits blacks receive from increases in parents’ social class. In this study the authors use the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 to estimate whether race moderates the relationship among three common measures of youths’ social class during high school (parents’ occupations, family income, and parents’ level of education) and their college enrollment two years after high school and educational attainment eight years after high school. The results suggest that black youth receive lower benefits from social class than whites for both outcomes, and parents’ gender plays a role in the racial differences in the link between social class and both outcomes. The authors also find a three-way interaction with family structure for mothers (among race, social class, and family structure); among youth not in two-parent households, blacks benefit less than whites from mothers’ occupational prestige on enrollment. This study extends the literature on social class and racial inequality in education by explicitly testing whether black youth receive lower benefits from social class in their attainment. Doing so separately for mothers’ and fathers’ social class characteristics uncovers a nuanced pattern useful for understanding race as a moderator to social class.

scholarly journals Kelas Sosial Dan Perempuan Generasi Z di Surabaya Dalam Membuat Keputusan Setelah Lulus Sekolah Menengah Atas

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teguh Dwi Putranto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Class ◽  
High School Graduation ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Graduation ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Working World

This paper describes how the social class determines the women generation Z in making decision after graduating from high school. From the results, it was obtained that women generation Z in Surabaya from upper middle and middle lower classes both have plans to continue their education to the university level after high school graduation. They both found that early-age marriege is not a goal when they have graduated from high school, because there are many things that should be prepared when they will reach the level of marriage. According to them the experience after graduating from high school such as working or pursuing their education at the university level is important for their lives in the future. Thus, it can be concluded that social class is so influential for the women generation Z in making decisions after graduating from high school. In addition, in the next six years the number of marriages of women generation Z will be decreased from the marriage of women generation Y. In the working world in the next six years will be fulfilled by many women generation Z Surabaya.  Keywords: Social Class, Women, z generation

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