SOC-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Eating Disorder, Social Distance, Labeling Theory
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Making it by faking it: working-class students in an elite academic. Societal values, identities, and social roles are learned, not instinctual. Law students experience intense period of professional socialization during their graduate-school years that not only teaches them their job, but also changes their values, identities, and social roles. Article focuses on class stigma by examining a group of highly successful, upwardly mobile, working-class students who gained admission to an ivy. Conducted interviews at various stages in training. Identifying with their working-class heritage produced sense of pride and a system of values that greatly influenced their initial career objectives. Lack of confidence is a psychological burden that working-class students experienced as they came to acquire the identity beliefs associated with middle-class society. Law and legal education are based on upper-middle-class values. Social distance working class students experienced early in law school careers led to considerable discomfort.
