The Way Class Works: Readings On School, Family, And The Economy

Weis, Lois

Routledge

Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. And nowhere is this drive more apparent than in our elite secondary schools. In Class Warfare, Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, and Heather Jenkins go inside the ivy-yearning halls of three such schools to offer a day-to-day, week-by-week look at this remarkable drive toward college admissions and one of its most salient purposes: to determine class.               Drawing on deep and sustained contact with students, parents, teachers, and administrators at three iconic secondary schools in the United States, the authors unveil a formidable process of class positioning at the heart of the college admissions process. They detail the ways students and parents exploit every opportunity and employ every bit of cultural, social, and economic capital they can in order to gain admission into a Most Competitive” or Highly Competitive Plus” university. Moreover, they show how admissions into these schoolswith their attendant rankingsare used to lock in or improve class standing for the next generation. It’s a story of class warfare within a given class, the substrata of whichwhether economically, racially, or socially determinedare fiercely negotiated through the college admissions process. In a historic moment marked by deep economic uncertainty, anxieties over socioeconomic standing are at their highest. Class, as this book shows, must be won, and the collateral damage of this aggressive pursuit may just be education itself, flattened into a mere victory banner.  

Politics & Social Sciences

Cipollone, Kristin

Jenkins, Heather

Sociology

University of Chicago Press

Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. And nowhere is this drive more apparent than in our elite secondary schools. In Class Warfare, Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, and Heather Jenkins go inside the ivy-yearning halls of three such schools to offer a day-to-day, week-by-week look at this remarkable drive toward college admissions and one of its most salient purposes: to determine class. Drawing on deep and sustained contact with students, parents, teachers, and administrators at three iconic secondary schools in the United States, the authors unveil a formidable process of class positioning at the heart of the college admissions process. They detail the ways students and parents exploit every opportunity and employ every bit of cultural, social, and economic capital they can in order to gain admission into a “Most Competitive” or “Highly Competitive Plus” university. Moreover, they show how admissions into these schools—with their attendant rankings—are used to lock in or improve class standing for the next generation. It’s a story of class warfare within a given class, the substrata of which—whether economically, racially, or socially determined—are fiercely negotiated through the college admissions process. In a historic moment marked by deep economic uncertainty, anxieties over socioeconomic standing are at their highest. Class, as this book shows, must be won, and the collateral damage of this aggressive pursuit may just be education itself, flattened into a mere victory banner.

Working Class Without Work: High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy (Critical Social Thought)

Based primarily on ethnographic data, Working Class Without Work" examines the identity formation process among white working-class youth in the context of the de-industrialization of the American economy. The elimination of many basic production jobs and the expansion of the service sector have changed the expectations and opportunities of the white working class. The author documents the way in which these young people respond to such changes, and the way they help to create the conditions of their future lives. In the process, she explores issues of race, class and gender and considers the roles of school and family in the production of self. " (Publisher)

Working class without work: High school students in a de-industrializing economy (Critical social thought)

Social Sciences

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Business & Money

Economics

Working Method (Critical Social Thought)

Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.

Working Method: Research and Social Justice (Critical Social Thought)

Fine, Michelle

Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone back to Freeway for Class Reunion. This time her focus is on the now grown-up students who are, for the most part, still working class and now struggling to survive the challenges of the global economy. Class Reunion is a rare and valuable longitudinal ethnographic study that provides powerful, provocative insight into how the lives of these men and women have changed over the last two decades--and what their prospects might be for the future.

Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class (Critical Social Thought)

Class Reunion (Critical Social Thought)

Off White

With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated second ddition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps.

Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance

History

Powell Pruitt, Linda

Burns, April

Americas

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The Way Class Works: Readings On School, Family, And The Economy

Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools

Working class without work: High school students in a de-industrializing economy (Critical social thought)

Working Class Without Work: High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy (Critical Social Thought)

Working Method: Research and Social Justice (Critical Social Thought)

Working Method (Critical Social Thought)

Class Reunion: The Remaking of the American White Working Class (Critical Social Thought)

Class Reunion (Critical Social Thought)

Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance