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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author | |
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| Understanding Social Class | |
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| A Starting Point | |
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| Class is more than money | |
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| Class is personal | |
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| Class is an intercultural experience | |
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| Class is individual perception | |
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| Class as a tool | |
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| A word about precision | |
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| Class as identity | |
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| Class as income and wealth | |
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| Class as capital | |
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| Class as education | |
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| Class as prestige | |
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| Class as occupation | |
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| Class as culture | |
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| Class as a system | |
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| Class as privilege and oppression | |
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| Class as role | |
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| Social class on campus | |
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| Campus majority social class | |
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| Class is more than money | |
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| Class bubbles | |
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| A tale of five students: Whitney Page, Louise, Eleanor | |
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| What will likely happen to these women? | |
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| Money, culture, and social class of origin | |
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| Social class contrast and fit on campus | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Your Experience and Social Class | |
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| The Privilege Meme | |
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| Where you stare matters | |
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| Starting with boundaries | |
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| Starting somewhere | |
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| Historical views of class | |
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| Class and anticlass | |
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| Key words and secret language | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Class Myths | |
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| �Class doesn't exist in the USA.� | |
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| �We are all middle class anyway.� | |
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| �The working class is disappearing.� | |
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| �Once you get a degree you arc no longer working class.� | |
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| �Education is the key to upward mobility.� | |
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| �College is open to anyone who wants to work hard.� | |
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| �You can't separate class from ethnicity.� | |
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| �All White people are the same.� | |
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| �People talk about class because they don't want to confront ethnicity and gender.� | |
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| �Everyone knows about class.� | |
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| �The world is a meritocracy.� | |
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| Myth and reality | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection question | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| The Social Class Identity | |
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| Social class identity: Development | |
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| Social class identity: Maturity | |
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| Social class identity: Transition | |
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| Our three social class identies | |
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| Social class contrast | |
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| social class transition | |
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| Managing multiple social class identites | |
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| Support for social class transition | |
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| Class passing | |
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| Class as role | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection question | |
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| Discusssion question | |
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| The Majority Class Student Experience of Class of Campus | |
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| Choosing how we name classes | |
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| Misty goes to college | |
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| So what? | |
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| Ursula goes to college | |
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| Eleanor's story | |
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| Marking class on campus | |
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| The reproduction of class | |
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| College as a confirmation experience: The world of accommodation | |
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| Campus class markets: Fashion | |
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| Campus class markets: Language | |
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| Campus class markets: Social interaction | |
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| Campus class markets: Organizational structure | |
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| Campus class markets: Leadership | |
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| Campus class markets: The physical campus | |
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| Class passing | |
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| The monoculture campus | |
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| The danger of being the majority | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| The Minority Class Student Experience of Class on Campus | |
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| The lower-class experience on campus | |
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| College as a conversion experience: The world of assimilation | |
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| Whitney Page's story | |
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| So what? | |
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| Louise's story | |
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| So what? | |
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| Deficit model of class: Raising up the underclass | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| The Campus Ecology of Class | |
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| The campus social class human aggregate | |
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| The campus social class physical environment | |
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| The campus social class organizational environment | |
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| The campus social class constructed environment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Manifestations of Social Class | |
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| Class as Income and Wealth | |
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| A case study | |
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| Multiple views of class groups based on income | |
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| Income as more than income | |
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| So what? | |
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| Class as wealth | |
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| So what? | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection question | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Class as Capital | |
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| Bourdieu on capital | |
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| Bourdieu on social capital | |
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| Other kinds of capital | |
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| So what? Implications for campus | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Class as Education | |
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| Social class and the campus | |
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| The individual effects of education | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Class as Prestige | |
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| A prestige experience | |
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| Cost and prestige | |
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| Ranking and prestige | |
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| Keeping up with the others Prestige and class | |
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| Prestige and college | |
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| Competition | |
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| Prestige in perspective | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Class as Occupation | |
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| Occupational prestige and social dominance | |
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| Occupations and class summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection question | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Class as Culture | |
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| Subcultures and education | |
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| Cultures in competition | |
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| Student cultures, student typologies | |
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| Faculty cultures, faculty typologies | |
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| The reproduction of culture | |
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| Class, culture, privilege, and oppression | |
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| Summary | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection question | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Class, Ethnicity, and Gender | |
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| More Complexity | |
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| Class and gender | |
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| Class and ethnicity | |
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| Class, gender, and ethnicity | |
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| Experience | |
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| Reflection questions | |
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| Discussion question | |
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| Stories | |
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| Zach's story | |
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| Khou's story | |
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| Christina's story | |
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| Ken's story | |
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| Abe's story | |
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| Reflection question | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| What Can Anyone Do? | |
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| Things you can do about class | |
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| Things you can encourage others on your campus to do about class | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |