ISS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Political Repression, Kshatriya, Intelligence Quotient

• School: MSU
• Department: Integrative Studies Social Sci
• Course: ISS 210
• Professor: Monir Moniruzzaman

Document Summary

In the us, white americans have 22 times more wealth than blacks. The median household worth for whites was ,729 in 2010, and for blacks ,995. Ideology of class: according to marx and engels, the ruling class promotes the view that their dominance of society is in the best interests of all. Racism: 19th century scientists attempted to prove that whites were superior to other races. In an illustration it is believed that blacks might even rank lower than apes. The social construction of intelligence: the iq test and sat are determined by social judgement, the concept of intelligence legitimize the social class system. It reinforces that the status of lower class was part of the natural order of things. Ta(cid:272)k (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)ted studies of ho(cid:449) fa(cid:373)ilies (cid:272)ope with poverty: she worked with a predominantly black community she called the flats, in a.