Here's Something New

So here's the start of my new blog. As a result of my newfound speed and need to graduate, here is my outline. The idea is to work on something every single day. I know that I have at least 2 hours to apply to Class Matters every day. On days which I fall behind, there is the weekend, but I'm not relying upon that.

Unit 1: Theory, Concepts and Vocabulary
April 7: Tool #1 Norms and Values
• Johnson, ch 2 “Culture: Symbols, Ideas, and the Stuff of Life”
April 8: Tool #2 Individualism
• Johnson ch 1 “Forest and Trees
• Horwitt, Hard Earned Money (ER),
• Tammy PLU (video)
April 9: Tool #3 Social Structures  
• Kozol “Amazing Grace” (BLOG)
• Timmer, Root Causes of Homelessness (ER)
April 10: Tool #4 social and cultural capital
• Pierre Bourdieu, (ER) (BLOG)
• Pretty women / PLU How to marry the rich (video)
• Zweig, ch 1 / work on assignment
• Johnson 1 page doc on privilege
April 11: Tool #5  Classism
• Mantsios, “Media Magic” (BLOG)
• Jensen, ch 2, The Invisible Ism
• Film - Class Dismissed
• Evaluation of these tools.  How have they changed our thinking about class and why are they critical in thinking about class?
Unit 2: Case Studies
April 12: Case Study: Historical Perspective on Individualism vs. Socioeconomic Structures
• Coontz – “Self-reliance and the American Family” (ER)
• Curry, “Futile War on drugs” (ER)
• Capitalism hits the fan  (www.youtube.com)
• Case Study: Rhode Island – Rachel Flum, Economic Progress Institute
• (http://www.economicprogressri.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Family%20Econ%20Security/2012RISNFINAL.pdf)
• STRIKE DEBT!  Speaker George Caffentzis
• “Debt: The First 5,000 years” by David Graeber (http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2012/08/13/david_graeber_-_debt__the_first_5_000_years.pdf)
o Read pp. 1-13, 14-18.  Take notes, bring questions.
April 13: Case Study:  Consequences of Inequality in America
• Life Chances (ER)
• Collins & Yeskel, “Economic Apartheid”,
• Cohen, “Life is Healthy at the top” (ER)
• Rowe, Vanishing Commons
• Tilly, ‘Why Inequality is Bad” (ER)
• Oxfam, “Cost of Inequality”
o (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/inequality-is-holding-back-the-recovery/)
April 14: First Assignment due
April 15
• Jensen, Reading Classes, chapters 2, 3, 4, [pp. 28-116]
• Lasch, “Abortion” ER
• Smith, Values (http://members.aol.com/lsmithdog/bottomdog/WCValuespost.htm)
• ‘Gnomes Like Us’ (video)
April 16 Case Study: Race and Class
• Oliver and Shapiro, White Wealth, Black Wealth – Intro, ch 1, 2  (ER) (BLOG)
April 17: Intersection of Race, Gender and Class
• Film: Waging a Living
• (BLOG on the film drawing connections to at least 2 texts we have read)
April 18th
• Film - Roger and Me
• How do you see the issues we have discussed class in the story of Flint?  Think about our tools as you watch the film – dominant ideologies about social classes, classism, myth of individualism, social systems and structures, social and cultural capital, privilege.  Take notes on the film for a 6-8 page written analysis
• Film analysis due via email or in my mailbox
April 19: Case Study: Work and Intelligence
• Mike Rose, The Mind at Work, Intro, ch 1, 2
• Rose: ch 7 All; shared Ch 3, 4, 5; Concl ALL
• Brief 1 page essay on one of your own work experiences in relation to Rose’s arguments.  
• Prepare questions for the oral history assignment.
April 20th: Case Study: Reproduction of Class
• Anyon (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/urbaneducation/Anyon/Papers/SocialClass&theHiddenCurr.pdf )
• Gorski “The Question of Class” (http://www.tolerance.org/teach/printar.jsp?p=0&ar=777&pi=ttm)
• Laureau, “Watching, waiting and deciding when to intervene: race, class and the transmission of advantage” (ER)
• Rand Review (ER)
• McLaren and Farahmandpur “Pedagogy of Oppression”
• Statistics on per-pupil spending
• Kahlenberg “Return of “separate but equal” MI
• Class in higher ed
• Jensen chapter 6.
Apr 21: Women and Class
• Ransby “Katrina, Black women” (ER)
• Luce & Brenner, “Women & Class: what has happened in forty years?” (ER)
• http://www.epi.org/issuebriefs/ib133.pdf
• http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2005.htm
• http://www.economicprogressri.org/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Public/Uneven_Path_2009.pdf
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/opinion/sunday/why-gender-equality-stalled.html?pagewanted=all
Unit 3: Crossing Class
Apr 22 : Case Study:  Crossing Class
Apr 23
• Jensen ch 6
• bell hooks--“don’t get above your raisin’’ (video)
April 24: What is to be done?
• Collins, 7 govt actions
• Greider, Moral Economy,
• Oliver and Shapiro ch 7