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Brown, Amy – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
The narrative of gendered White savior in urban classrooms is ubiquitous not only in film (Smith, 1995, LaGravenese, 2007), but also in popular and academic literature. White female teachers are at the front of the majority of increasingly privatized U.S. classrooms (Pickower, 2009, Cochran-Smith, 2004). This article ethnographically critiques the…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Whites, Females
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Shedd, Carla – Russell Sage Foundation, 2015
Chicago has long struggled with racial residential segregation, high rates of poverty, and deepening class stratification, and it can be a challenging place for adolescents to grow up. "Unequal City" examines the ways in which Chicago's most vulnerable residents navigate their neighborhoods, life opportunities, and encounters with the…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Low Income, African American Students, Transportation
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Sim, Jasmine B.-Y. – Educational Review, 2012
Elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew maintains that a society ruled by elites is necessary to provide for high growth and social progress. Elitism conjures a class divide; an ongoing concern is a disconnection between elite and the citizens it has to represent. In the tradition of political socialization, and using the case study approach, this article…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Socialization, Global Approach, Ideology
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Riagain, Padraig O. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
Research on language attitudes in the Republic of Ireland has been greatly influenced by stratification theories. That is to say, differences in attitudes are seen to reflect the positions individuals occupy in the social structure. Research on language attitudes in Northern Ireland is less developed, but has tended to view such attitudes as…
Descriptors: Social Class, Nationalism, Language Attitudes, Social Structure
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O'Connor, Carla – Sociology of Education, 1999
Examines how low-income African American high school students situate race, class, and gender in the process of status attainment. Finds that the students emphasized the importance of hard work, individual effort, and education but their overall views were complicated by their interpretation of how race, class, and gender affect life chances.…
Descriptors: Black Students, High School Students, Individual Characteristics, Interviews
Duncan, Cynthia M. – 1999
This book examines the nature of persistent poverty in two impoverished towns in the coalfields of Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta and a contrasting social milieu in a prosperous but remote rural mill town in northern New England. Drawing on 350 in-depth interviews and census data, the book analyzes the dynamics of poverty, politics, and…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Community Study, Economically Disadvantaged, Interviews
Sennett, Richard; Cobb, Jonathan – 1972
The book examines the effect of class barriers on blue collar workers by mirroring occupational/ethnic backgrounds of the white manual-laboring population in the Boston area through urban anthropological observations as well as 150 in-depth interviews conducted in 1969-70. It mainly reflects the experience of middle-aged, third generation American…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Ethnic Studies, Human Dignity, Interviews