Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society by Christopher B. Doob

Author:Christopher B. Doob [Doob, Christopher B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Minority Studies, Sociology, General, Discrimination, Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN: 9781000007626
Google: G92ZDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-22T04:08:48+00:00

Clearly a sense of entitlement among one group and its absence in the other provided the middle-class contingent a much better foundation for educational advancement.

Sometimes working-class students receive strong support. A pair of academic writers indicated that they were able to teach history and English at the college level because as working-class college students themselves they were fortunate enough to have found passionately involved, caring mentors. Historian Richard A. Greenwald indicated that “the faculty in the history department at Queens College recognized me as a human being and engaged my mind in ways that were unknown to me” (Greenwald and Grant 1999, 34–35). Clearly these mentors nurtured the students’ sense of entitlement. It would be interesting to know whether this experience is common—that working-class individuals who have succeeded in upper-middle-class occupations have had mentors playing a prominent role. At various times working-class people use social capital.

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