Internalized Oppression Reflection

In Class Matters, Bill Keller examines the meaning of the word class and how it plays on the life of the US citizens.According to Class Matters, a class is represented as four cards, one from each suit: education, income, occupation, and wealth. Based on your cards you are put into a class. Most people end up with the same cards as their parents. Keller explains how a class can be predetermined by a person’s upbringing or how they were raised. In this book, Bill Keller suggests that it is quite difficult to move into other social classes than the one we were born in, or a class we have been associated with for a long time. Based on the reading of this book along with other resources, moving into other social classes is exceptionally

Mantsios believes that people in the United States do not like to talk about classes, whether it is upper class, middle class, or lower class. He outlines four beliefs that are widely held about class in the United States, and then thoroughly refutes them with statistical evidence. He argues that the class

Last class we watched an informative documentary named “People like Us, Social Class in America”. America is known to be a country defined by class. Throughout the movie it showed different opinions on what class was based on by different people and the answers varied from looks, house size, career choice, race, manners, upbringing, and education. As we move through life, most times we remove ourselves from different people not in our class to then live amongst those who share similar backgrounds and who we are most comfortable with. As stated, “if there is class, there is an inequality one cannot explain and it perpetuates itself”. Revealing class can expose hope, fears, prejudice and a myriad of different emotions that we may not all be comfortable speaking about. I feel as if part two and part three were most applicable to myself because they are something that I have experienced both directly and indirectly.

The concept of social class has been around for ages and is still a part of today’s society. Social class is not only based on the individual’s wealth but also on their social standing such as; monarchs, priests, nobles, merchants, and peasant class. The peasant class was practically ignored, which means that the higher classes would only pay attention to each other. This can be the case in society today, there are some people who feel that their career makes them higher than a janitor. Even though humans have been around for centuries, social class is still a big issue.

According to Merriam-Webster the word “redneck” simply means a white person who live in a small town or in the country especially in the southern U.S., who typically has a working-class job, and who is seen by others as being uneducated and having opinions and attitudes that are offensive. “Redneck” is a term that is commonly degrade white supremacist, it made them appeal as if they were trash and did not take care of themselves. The word redneck has many beliefs of the definitions. According to the Oxford

Are there problems that evolve from economic and social classes? There are statistics, facts, and the knowledge of Gregory Mantsios. People are being quoted as not wanting to use the word “class” because they are saying that they are old families who have things and were born into it so they can’t be bragging on about it when they didn’t get into that “class” themselves. American citizens

People are keenly aware of their class status, perhaps not in terms of the specific categories but they instinctively know that in relationship to others whether they are a part of the upper, middle or lower classes

Classism separates the rich from the poor. There are many things that some folks simply cannot afford to do. The rich will never understand the poor because they have never lived that life. The rich and poor do different things, and they live in different places. They just do not have any interaction with one another. When it comes to pecuniary issues, the separation causes the word classism to pop back up (Domhoff, “The Class Domination Theory of Power). The mall is a fun place for many people to hang out in. It should be a place where the rich, working class, and poor meet up. All economic social classes do gather here, but certain stores can separate them. There is not need for a poor person to shop in Saks Fifth Avenue because they do not make enough money to buy anything in there. Even department stores encourage classism because certain people will not be able to shop in them. Private schools contribute to classism, because most working class families cannot afford to send their

Concept 1: I come to realize that classism is degree of difference based on social perceived class, which is all teetering on one paycheck. I also come to understand, from the movie American Winter, that middle class people are finding themselves, laid off, foreclosed, and unable to pay their utility bills causing so many people in our own community to be one paycheck from poverty, eviction and homelessness. The middle class is working hard one day and the next day going to homeless shelters, food banks and even selling their own plasma just to put food on the table (Gantz 2013). Homeless shelters are quickly

Social class can be thought of as a very important indicator of who a person is.

Classism is a prejudice where stereotypes, intolerance, and judgments are placed upon people due to their rank in a class system. When you think about it, classism is much like racism. However, instead of race being the issue, the socioeconomic class is the primary target of abhorrence and bias. Lauren, being our protagonist and heroine, is very much capable of exemplifying the ideology of classism. In the beginning of the novel we are introduced to Lauren as a teenager who is growing up in a gated, or walled, community outside of Los Angeles. Her community is literally

I think it's dumb how people tend to act or treat others different jus because of their level of social class that makes them feel like they can draw a line and divide themselves that want to be more than others but at the end of the day we are all humans and one day we will die. Social classes are not good or have any positive outcomes. Social classes effect the young generations, if you are low or middle class they want everything they see on the rich but they cant understand sometimes life is hard and when you grow in a low income family you cant get always what you want to have to work hard for it in the other hand there is the rich kids who get whatever they want and don't have to work for it because its handed easily to them.

Privileged citizens at the higher rank of society seem simpler lifestyle than those who are unprivileged and take for granted. “While Marjane who was from a rich family got to go to her first party. Marjane wore a sweater full of holes and a necklace with chains and nails. Punk rock was in. These examples show a major difference between classes.

Class is the relative location of a person or group within a larger society based on wealth power, prestige, or other valued resources. In other words, class can be defined as a socioeconomic status in which one’s capital defines their class position thus giving us a ranking of financial status. This categorization of class position is based on economic status that can be determined through income, profession, or inherited wealth. Blue collar (working class), white collar, and upper class (professional services) are the three class categories based on economic status. This class structure is society’s way of determining between the haves and have-nots. One’s ability to be aware of the class system and one’s place within it is known as class consciousness or class standing.

Do class and gender affect how individuals act or behave? Society has evolved throughout the years and with that evolution, the people have separated themselves by factors such as class and gender. This separation started many centuries ago and made a large appearance in the Great Depression and Civil Rights Movement. Along with this division of people, actions and behaviors seem to have been paired with certain classifications of people. In prior eras, women were seen as fragile and not earners due to needing to stay at home and take care of children. On the contrary, men were seen as masculine and earned a decent amount of money from working all day long. Even though genders evolved into how they are now with women working alongside men, the separation is still visible. Women are still fighting to get paid the same amount as men, resulting in a certain behavior based on the gender. This behavior is one where women try to get equal pay through comparable worth instead of just staying quiet like women used to. The factors of class and gender cause a difference in an individual’s actions and behavior in the ways of not socializing with certain types of people, creating stereotypes, and behaving in a way to fit the norms of the specific class or gender.