TEEN Spilling the caviar: telling privileged class tales

2004 ◽  
pp. 235-244
Keyword(s):  
Privileged Class

scholarly journals Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852098222
Author(s):  
Sam Friedman ◽  
Dave O’Brien ◽  
Ian McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Class Identity ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
Privileged Class

Why do people from privileged class backgrounds often misidentify their origins as working class? We address this question by drawing on 175 interviews with those working in professional and managerial occupations, 36 of whom are from middle-class backgrounds but identify as working class or long-range upwardly mobile. Our findings indicate that this misidentification is rooted in a self-understanding built on particular ‘origin stories’ which act to downplay interviewees’ own, fairly privileged, upbringings and instead forge affinities to working-class extended family histories. Yet while this ‘intergenerational self’ partially reflects the lived experience of multigenerational upward mobility, it also acts – we argue – as a means of deflecting and obscuring class privilege. By positioning themselves as ascending from humble origins, we show how these interviewees are able to tell an upward story of career success ‘against the odds’ that simultaneously casts their progression as unusually meritocratically legitimate while erasing the structural privileges that have shaped key moments in their trajectory.

CHIRAL ROUTE TO A PRIVILEGED CLASS

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (34) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
STU BORMAN
Keyword(s):  
Privileged Class

Lofs Wife Syndrome and Double Publics in South Africa

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (5) ◽  
pp. 1452-1461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace A. Musila
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Dominant Class ◽  
The Real ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Future ◽  
Privileged Class

In a Compelling Reading of Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa, Bhekizizwe Peterson Remarks on the Work's Inscription of multiple imagined readers with different investments in the narrative (79). Quoting from Jean-Paul Sartre's reflections on the intricacies of addressing fractured, and sometimes future, publics, Peterson writes:[T]he works of writers who find themselves on the “margin of the privileged class” contain a “double simultaneous postulation,” a consequence of the “fracture” in the “actual public” in which their art is produced and consumed. Because the “real public” consists largely of the conservative forces that compose the dominant class and ideology, the marginal writer is compelled to address “the progressive forces, or the virtual public” even if “the oppressed classes have neither the leisure nor the taste for reading.” In engaging the future and its virtual public—“an emptiness to be filled in, an aspiration”—the writing exceeds its actual limits and extends itself step by step to the infinite. (81)

scholarly journals Introdução a história da educação especial

2016 ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Zilma Aparecida dos Santos Soares ◽  
Ana Lídia Pateis Patez
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Education History ◽  
Inclusive Process ◽  
Exclusive Process ◽  
Common Definition ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Privileged Class ◽  
Teaching Learning

INTRODUÇÃO: Esse trabalho, propôs-se a realizar um breve levantamento sobre a História da Educação Especial e Inclusão em épocas e contextos diferentes: tempos primitivos, idade média, moderna, contemporânea…A história através da literatura, nos traz algumas revelações. No Egito antigo, por exemplo, há mais de cinco mil anos, muitas pessoas com deficiências, faziam parte da classe privilegiada: faraós, nobres, altos funcionários, artesãos, agricultores, e até escravos. As artes egípcias, deixam claras essas informações, sejam pelas construções (pirâmides), túmulos, múmias…MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS: Embasamos e fundamentamos nosso estudo, em bibliografias, audição de entrevistas, ¨sites¨, etc. RESULTADOS e DISCUSSÃO: O processo inclusivo-exclusivo, há muito existe e continua sendo temas de ¨combates¨, nos campos: dialógico (Freire) bem como nos debates legalistas dos três poderes: Executivo, Legislativo, Judiciário (políticos jurídicos). Agradecimento: SobreTudo: Deus. Família. Àqueles que direta e/ou indiretamente contribuem a cada dia no processo de aprendizagem-ensino-aprendizagem. À Adm Predial/FE/Unicamp, pelo apoio. Ao VI SIMTEC/GGBS por mais essa oportunidade. Conclusão: Percebe-se no entanto, como relata Odom e Diamond (1998, p. 5), ̈não há uma definição comum sobre inclusão ̈. Dentre os pontos positivos: as discussões/reflexões relacionadas ao processo inclusivo, têm despertado a atenção da sociedade para a importância de pôr em prática os direitos dessa população, por séculos negados. Referências: SANTOS, Z.A., PATEIS. A.L. - Anais do IV SIMTEC - Simpósio de Profissionais da Unicamp: Conhecimento e experiência: reconhecendo fronteiras e construindo pontes. Título: Acessibilidade e a pessoa com deficiência: qual o seu olhar? 6 e 7 de novembro de 2012. Campinas, SP.Abstract: Introduction: This work proposed to carry out a brief survey on the Special Education and Inclusion&";s History in different times and contexts: primitive times, middle ages, modern ages, contemporary ages... The history through literature bring us some revelations. In the Ancient Egypt, for example, more than 5,000 years ago, many people with disabilities were part of the privileged class: pharaohs, nobles, high officials, artisans, farmers, and even slaves. The Egyptian arts make this information clear, whether by buildings (pyramids), tombs, mummies... MATERIALS AND METHODS. We based and grounded our study in bibliographies, interview listening, websites, etc. RESULTS and DISCUSSION: The inclusive-exclusive process exists for a long time and keep on being topic of "fights" in fields: dialogic (Freire) as well as the legalistic debates of three powers: Executive, Legislative, Judiciary (legal politics). Thank You: Especially: God. Family. To those who directly and/or indirectly contribute every day to the learning-teaching-learning process. To building administration/FE/Unicamp, by the support. To VI SIMTEC/GGBS for one more opportunity. Conclusion: We can observe, though, as reported by Odom and Diamond (1998, page 5), "there is no common definition about inclusion". Among the positive points: the discussions/reflections related to the inclusive process have awakened the society&";s attention for the importance of putting into practice this population&";s rights, denied for centuries. References: SANTOS, Z.A., PATEIS. A.L. - Anais do IV SIMTEC - Simpósio de Profissionais da Unicamp: Conhecimento e experiência: reconhecendo fronteiras e construindo pontes. Título: Acessibilidade e a pessoa com deficiência: qual o seu olhar? November 6-7, 2012. Campinas, SP.Keywords: SPECIAL EDUCATION HISTORY/INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION/EDUCATIVE PRACTICES 

The Postmodern European City

2016 ◽  
pp. 28-37
Author(s):  
Hans Ibelings
Keyword(s):  
Double Layer ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
European City ◽  
Privileged Class ◽  
Roman Antiquity

One of the books I would love to write, but probably never will, is ahistory of the European exterior, a complement to Mario Praz’s 1963 monograph on the European interior, La filosofia dell’arredamento, the first version of which had appeared in 1945. Praz covers interiors from Greek and Roman Antiquity up to English Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau, mainly through paintings, watercolors and engravings. These images reflect the domestic bliss of an elite who could afford this happiness and afford to commission artists to depict it. Despite the double layer of mediation—this being Praz’s reading of images that by themselves offer a filtered interpretation of an idealized, protected daily life in the interiors of a privileged class—the book manages to transmit the sense of a bygone life between walls.

A DREAM DEFERRED?

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason E. Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Attitudinal Differences ◽  
Pooled Data ◽  
Structure Report ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Socioeconomic Variation ◽  
Privileged Class

AbstractThe goal of this paper is to determine whether a privileged class position operates similarly in shaping Blacks’ and Whites’ beliefs about the causes of racial inequality. Existing studies have established that socioeconomic variation drives intraracial differences in commitments to individualistic and structural attributions. However, scholars have yet to determine whether Blacks and Whites positioned at some of the highest levels of the American class structure report corresponding beliefs about the roots of racial disparities. Pooled data from the 1985–2012 General Social Surveys indicate that class-based attitudinal differences are more prevalent and pronounced among Whites rather than Blacks. However, a privileged class position often operates similarly in shaping commitments to select structural attributions. The implications of the findings are discussed, and suggestions for future research are offered.

Place of the Indigenous and the Western Systems of Medicine in the Health Services of India

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 511-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debabar Banerji
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Alternative Health ◽  
Alternative Health Care ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Privileged Class ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Political Weapon

The interrelationships of the indigenous (traditional and western (modem) systems of medicine are a function of the interplay of social, economic, and political forces in the community. In India, western medicine was used as a political weapon by the colonialists to strengthen the oppressing classes and to weaken the oppressed. Not only were the masses denied access to the western system of medicine, but this system contributed to the decay and degeneration of the preexisting indigenous systems. This western and privileged-class orientation of the health services has been actively perpetuated and promoted by the postcolonial leadership of India. The issue in formulating an alternative health care system for India is essentially that of rectifying the distortions which have been brought about by various forces. The basic premise for such an alternative will be to start with the people. Action in this field will lead to a more harmonious mix between the indigenous and western systems of medicine.

scholarly journals Nomination of Prince in Russian language picture of the world (according to the writings of G. Kotoshikhin "About Russia in the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich")

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
I.N. Shchemelinina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Privileged Class ◽  
Ability To Drive

This article analyzes the word “prince” as a mean of reflection fragment of a language picture of the world "ruler" during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. It is proved that the word “prince” translates and interprets in different texts not only as the concept of 'the emperor, the king', but also preserves the semantics of 'a person who has a generic title bestowed as a privileged class, and lost the ability to drive'.

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