(1) Class According to Brenda Allen in the chapter "Power Matters", she states that there are dominant ideologies of identity that "reflect the perspectives and experiences of dominant groups, whose members construct and spread beliefs that will benefit them the most.” We live in a country where ideologies of organizational hierarchy prevail, which “organize job positions in a stratified structure, with power flowing from the top down.” of domination, which is a belief system in America that “the superior should rule over the inferior” (32). This ideology is so ingrained in our system that most people believe it is natural American society in which we live values patriarchy, white supremacy, heteronormativity, and a specific culture of wealth and poverty; any identity that falls outside of these dominant ideologies is marginalized and placed in the lower strata of social power. Allen supports his claims about hierarchies and power dynamics in his chapter “Social Class Matters.” It dives into the structures of society by examining power and social class in various contexts. In this chapter he explains that people are classified according to the themes of class difference and struggle. Social class is associated with the relationship between power and distribution of resources. Because this system of social class stratification is a major predictor of academic achievement, social identity plays an important role in the social reproduction of inequality in the educational system.(2) RaceIn his book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of color blindness, Michelle Alexander says we still use our criminal justice system to “label people of color as 'criminals' and then engage... halfway through the paper ......understand how social inequality is reproduced in the world in the classroom and at school.Collins also talks about economic, cultural and specifically linguistic reproduction. linguistic capital is a more specific form of capital. It refers to the role of language and class in social reproduction. This concept was originally coined by Basil Bernstein, who argued that “the experience of the labor process reinforces types of family role relationships, in turn realized as discursive identities carried by 'elaborate' and 'restricted' codes” (39) . We saw this in the 1960s; Poor African Americans performed poorly in school because they were culturally or linguistically deprived. Not only is race a determining factor in the social reproduction of inequality, but it is a combination of how aspects of our identity intersect with changing values and norms of our society..
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