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Still Unequal” Johnathan Kozol doesn’t believe the condition in inner-city schools has anything to do with economic factors. But in “From Social Class the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon‚ it’s a different story. She believes the conditions have everything to do with someone’s economic status. Kozol visited an elementary school in New York and spoke to a third grade girl‚ Alliyah‚ and got her thoughts of the conditions of her Abdullah2 school system. Kozol says “New York’s Board of Education
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Social class and social roles have come to be shaped and defined by the media that surrounds every society today. Gregory Mantsios’ essay Media Magic: Making Class Invisible disscusses the biases of media on social class. The article explains how each class is distorted in the media and how the "media is neither objective‚ balanced‚ independent‚ nor neutral‚" (Mantosis 2000). The article argues that the “ Mass Media” has created an “equal opportunity” image for all social classes. This in part
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Although Mantsios does not focus on the Horatio Alger myth as does Harlon Dalton‚ both authors concern themselves with seeing beyond the myths of success to underlying realities. Compare the ways these two writers challenge the American mythology of success. Do these two authors complement each other or do you see fundamental disagreements between them? Whose approach do you find more persuasive‚ insightful‚ or informative‚ and why? For your post‚ you can choose to respond to any one of the above
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comes down to family income‚ which determines what social class you are in; you can see how it affects lives. Mantsios is convincing in that‚ he has hard facts‚ (meaning that his examples are real true‚ and taken from a scholarly source)‚ true lifestyles and data to show the reader. He uses secondary sources which are legitimate and the reader can choose to research it for themselves. Mantsios back himself up by using more than one source to prove his theory about test scores and what class you are
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In Horatio Alger’s Ragged Dick‚ Alger writes about a rag-to-riches story and points out valid and key messages that tell of things like hard work and determination can take anyone from the bottom to the top‚ despite one’s economic class. I do realize that in real life that although these messages hold key to making it in the world‚ everyone does not have the equal opportunity to succeed or move up in class rankings like Alger says. Dick‚ the main character in Ragged Dick‚ is a man
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Question 1: Mantsios claims that the poor are invisible to us and the media contributes to this. What do you think of that claim in light of the Mantsios article‚ Ehrenreich article‚ and the People Like Us video we watched in class? The poor is invisible to us just as the Mantsios article states. It is invisible in the sense that many people frame the poor as urban black or Hispanic people that have their own culture that need not to be interfered with. On the other hand what people fail to
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consumerism‚ it also sets the social norms‚ beliefs‚ expectations‚ roles‚ and lifestyle of individuals in each class that participate in its exposure. The product of this capacity to behave‚ think‚ and act in a certain way is the reproduction of class. Mantsios reveals grave implications as he takes a look at the disparities between the lifestyles of individuals belonging to different socioeconomic statuses. Harold S. Browning‚ whose father was a manufacturer and industrialist‚ attended an exclusive private
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is supported by research done by Jean Anyon who is a chairperson of the department of education at Rutgers University‚ Newark. In her essay the “social class and the Hidden curriculum of work” she talks about schools in wealthy communities being better than those in poor communities. She further talks about better performance of rich children in comparison to poor children. In a period of a full school year‚ Anyon observed five elementary schools. Anyon concluded from her survey‚ that the fifth
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Mantsios Class in America In Mantsios article “Class in America” he states that Americans hold beliefs that blind them to social classes‚ citizens in America have four myths they use to ensure talk about the classes never take place. America has the largest gap between rich and poor in the world‚ and the lower class has no means to an end they can’t afford health care or quality education. The upper class avoids talk about social class the most; wealthy people don’t want to admit that they are better
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