SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Offshoring, Childbirth, Welfare Queen
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Family of 4 below ,250 = poverty. A place in town: doing class at a coffee shop: - carrie yodanis. She"s seeing how people behave and how well they do when having class in this different location. She talks to people with various classes (working class, middle class etc. ) Their occupation is a big identity of themselves. Middle class people dont see value of upper class life. They see upper class people sitting around coffee shop for hours, see them not work as much. See upper class people don"t take effort to take care of these things. Upper class women say, my husband is too lazy to fold his blankets or put away his glasses . The upper class women dont do it either, and they wait for maids to do it for them. Deemphasize social mobility (working-class pride, family commitment/solidarity) Nancy"s demonstrated solidarity to the working-class ideology via her daughter. Out-of-state college (hide her daughter"s academic success (ap courses,
