Classism: The Concept

Advice to young people in African-Americans Impact of ethnic and middle-class status Vocational school counseling, 7, 40-51. Chen, X. (2005). Students receiving first generation higher education: Look at the academic transcripts of the university (NCES 2005-171). US Department of Education, National Education Statistics Center. Washington DC: US ​​Government Printing Bureau. What is classicalism? (Unknown) from class action lawsuit http://www.classism.org/about-class/what-is-classism Cox, B.E., Reason, R.

Classicalism can be thought of as the core concept of Marxism and proposes the idea that class-based oppression and exploitation systems (the most important example is capitalism) are created by existing substance production relations. In this case, classicalism is regarded not as a direct cause of social injustice but as a kind of class conflict caused by the dominant bourgeois social concept. Classicism usually takes one of two forms (neither is mutually exclusive). The first is the natural hierarchy, ie the congenital rule of a particular caste with biological or sacred rights. Due to the concept of King's sacred right, this was very common in Europe in the 19th century. It is also very common in India, where certain fundamentalist forms of Hinduism (and political ideology Hindutva) inherently believe that the upper classes (ie Brahman and kshatariya caste) are better.

Classicism is correlated with other forms of "ism", the most common being sexism and racial discrimination. "A system of beliefs and cultural attitudes based on economic status, family lineage, occupational status, education level and the ranking of people in other divisions establishes class principle. Middle class and class composition with class or ruling class Members (dominant group) are considered In this way, members of the dominant group (middle class and wealthy people) define "normal" or "acceptable" of the class hierarchy for other people (Class action, 2012, paragraph 3)

Internalized classicism: classicism acceptance and defense class system by working class and poor, such as upper class inferiority, inferior class superiority, other working class or hostility and condemnation of the poor Trust in fairness of. There was no statistical difference between the poverty rate in 2007 and the number of poor people aged 18 to 64. Compared with 2007, the poverty rate of 10.9% in 2007 and 20.4 million people is statistically maintained. This constant is 9.7%, the number of the poor has increased from 3.4 million in 2006 to 3.6 million in 2007 (Table 3 and Figure 4).