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• Social Class Links 12/22/2009

  
  Education and Class — Authority: 106
  The Education Optimists: First, Do Your Homework Excellent essay on affordability, college success, and the shortsightedness of policymakers’ solutions for both. tags : social class , access Posted from Diigo . The rest of my favorite links are here. Posted in social class
  6 days ago

• Predatory Pseudo-Philanthropy

  
  The Perimeter Primate — Authority: 111
  The accurate term for the highly manipulative spending which Bill Gates , Eli Broad , and the Walton family are engaging in is “predatory pseudo-philanthropy.” It is the logically evolved and naturally-conceived outcome of the predatory capitalist approach of these billionaire CEOs. With ...
  6 days ago

• War on Drugs Heads Up: Sentencing Fairness Bill Up For Consideration on Christmas Eve

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 433
  If you’re interested in federal policy regarding the “War on Drugs,” consider watching the Senate Judiciary Committee as it meets this Christmas Eve to consider S. 1789, at which time the committee will either send the bill to the floor of the Senate or kill it.S. 1789, also called the Fair Sentencing Act of ...
  6 days ago

• The Countess Trilogy: “The Countess’s Client (No.1),” Alison Richardson

  
  avidbookreader — Authority: 116
  The Countess’s Client (Spice Brief 2009) by Alison Richardson is the first in the Countess trilogy . For the unfamiliar reader, Spice Briefs are erotic short stories published by Harlequin. During their half off sale, I bought this trilogy based on Janine’s enthusiastic recommendation of them. I’m glad that I ...
  1 week ago

• The Trauma of Joblessness

  
  Education and Class — Authority: 106
  According to a new poll by the New York Times/CBS News, reported in today’s New York Times , Joblessness has wreaked financial and emotional havoc on the lives of many of those out of work, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll of unemployed adults, causing major life changes, mental health issues and ...
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• What makes a difference?

  
  World Momma — Authority: 112
  One question frequently on my mind, especially now that I’m a parent, is – what makes a child turn out into a happy, successful, well-adjusted adult? Freakonomics provided some indicators of factors that were correlated with later success. I recall the mother being over 30 when her first child is born and lots ...
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• Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

  
  Rebecca Reads — Authority: 464
  Mary Barton is the only living child of John Barton, poor factory worker and Union leader in Manchester. He hoped for better for her, so he apprenticed her to a dressmaker, hoping that she could avoid the dreary life of a factory girl. Mary has high ambitions, hoping to snare the attentions of the young Harry Carsons, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Social Influences on Consumer Behavior

  
  Organizational Transformation by Asif J. Mir — Authority: 127
  Behavioral scientists have become increasingly aware of the powerful effects of the social environment and personal interactions on human behavior. In terms of consumer behavior, culture, social class, and reference group influences have been related to purchase and consumption decisions. It should be noted that these ...
  2 weeks ago

• Middle Class America?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  How Long Will It Last? One of the great myths about America is that we are a middle class society. That is, most of us fit between the extremes of wealth and poverty. This myth may have originated with the fact that, unlike Europe - and the rest of the world, for that matter - we started out with no aristocracy or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Public schools: Elites vs. the middle class

  
  Policy and Economy — Authority: 114
  Another reason to favor school choice over the public school monopoly, from Wikipedia : Randall Collins contributed the idea of credentialism to the study of class-based differences in educational attainment. Collins maintains that public schools are socializing institutions that teach and reward middle class ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Urban School Districts Make Easy Targets

  
  The Perimeter Primate — Authority: 111
  In Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (2003), Annette Lareau compares the parenting styles of middle-class families to that of working class and poor parents. I’ve written about her work before . According to Lareau, one characteristic of working class and poor parents which would make them ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Generation Students Blog

  
  Education and Class — Authority: 106
  The Center for Student Opportunity has launched a new blog, Opportunity Scholars ,  written by ten first-generation college students in their freshman year of college. These voices are much too rarely heard. Should be interesting to follow. Posted in social class
  3 weeks ago

• Social Class Links 12/03/2009

  
  Education and Class — Authority: 106
  In Job Hunt, College Degree Can’t Close Racial Gap – NYTimes.com “But there is ample evidence that racial inequities remain when it comes to employment. Black joblessness has long far outstripped that of whites. And strikingly, the disparity for the first 10 months of this year, as the recession has dragged ...
  3 weeks ago

• CLARENCE PAGE OP-ED: Fame And Its New Upper Crust

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 152
  The moderate-liberal commentator opines about Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who crashed the first Obama White House state dinner. He argues that theyve set the bar high for showing chutzpah : "Once there was a time when you became famous by doing something that mattered. Not anymore. In the age of instant celebrities ...
  3 weeks ago

• Genre Reading Group Recap

  
  The Daily Read @ EOL — Authority: 112
  How does the Genre Reading Group work, you may ask? Instead of each member reading the same book, GRG members select any book from an assigned fiction or nonfiction topic (selected by ballot). At our meetings, each participant tells the group a little about the book: why they chose it, a favorite scene or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is the Internet devolving into a segregated, class-based system?

  
  Trenchwars Weblog — Authority: 111
  In the real world, segregation by class or race or age is rightly understood as under utilizing the full potential of people in society. There is universal recognition that people should be free to achieve their highest potential based effort and talent – not on what money they were born with. And this ideal is what ...
  4 weeks ago

• Social Class Links 11/24/2009

  
  Education and Class — Authority: 106
  In Manhattan, Preparing for Kindergarten Admission Test – NYTimes.com “Test preparation has long been a big business catering to students taking SATs and admissions exams for law, medical and other graduate schools. But the new clientele is quite a bit younger: 3- and 4-year-olds whose parents hope that a little ...
  4 weeks ago

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