SOCIOL 211G Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: White Trash
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Blacks trying to get out of ghetto latinos trying to achieve american dream single women being the head of their house in the 70s and 80s tv shows showing women not worried about money not reality. Women were often working dead end jobs. People don"t often rise up social economic ladder tv shows depicted that. To change class need to radically change economics . Tv shows show that women are smarter than their husbands. Men only interested in reading about sports and comics. Men hustling money needed to pay for rent, taxes . Men not interested in advancing socioeconmic status. Not thinking about opportunities clearly two types of working class children smart and talented- will make it out of working class violent and don"t care about education - will remain in working class cop shows.