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Class and the family

Bourdieu explains that those who are wealthy (have the highest cultural capital) do not necessarily have the highest social status (highest economic capital). High social status (high culture) versus low social status (low cultural symbols) often relies on values and education, not necessarily on money. Occasionally the new rich (nouveau riche) can be relatively low in social status (culture leading). A good contemporary example is the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies and Donald Trump.

Those that acquire high social status (cultural symbols) in high status groups (old money) will have learned these values and be educated by their families in what is called habitus (habit). This high social status is deeply ingrained in children by their families at an early age so that these habits seem natural (almost inherited or inborn). Bourdieu argues that you can acquire upper-class habits through education but these will always be incomplete. This is because the individual lacks the confidence and natural attitude acquired by those raised with such habits from an early age. One simple example habit is simply saying “please and thank you” at the appropriate time. Indeed, even preschool teachers respond more positively to polite than impolite children, and these simple courtesies are part of the child’s future success in life.

Persons not raised in high social status families and communities may acquire the high social status symbols through education but will fail to master the “comfort zone” of those who were raised with the symbols from birth.

The author contrasts the authentic acquisition of high social status (class symbols) through the family and through the educational system (autodidact).

Unfortunately for those who were born with lower social status all of the various high social status teachings (cultural symbols), high, low, and in between, are constant flux. Indeed, middle class and low social status teachings are in constant flux also.

The upper classes practices high social status "violence" (symbolic violence) on those that do not understand the deep rules of the game. Including against even the new rich.

Certain habitual practices prevail among the upper classes such as not showing off one's wealth or status (ostentatious) and the importance of high culture art, music, and literature.

Family is an important and central part (integral mechanism) of the high social status class structure of any society.

High social status behaviors (cultural symbols) are used to identify the people that would be socially “appropriate” for high economic positions of power and prestige.

Surprisingly, the United States ranks very last of 10 countries in social mobility (Forbes magazine drawn from an OECD report). The three most mobile societies in the world are Denmark, Australia, and Norway, while the last three were Spain, France, and the United States. In otherwords, the last three countries, including the United States, are more rigidly structured and pass on social and economic advantage generation to generation (intergenerationally).

The author argues that elites in developed countries such as the United States are “cultural omnivores" and favor a more sophisticated elitism (more diversified and diffuse). References White, J.M., Klein, D.M., & Martin, T.F. (2015). Family theories: An introduction (4th Ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Attached is chapter 7 in a PDF and optical character recognized (OCR). I hope this assists you in the future.

Feminism

American women ignore the 6 million people (many women) that Americans have killed since World War 2

Question: What is an American feminist? An issue which causes Americans to ignore the 6 million people that Americans have killed since World War 2, many of these women.

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Please note: I have noticed that many of the "research" papers that my fellow students write is simply sharing their own experiences (navel gazing) then writing a serious scholarly analysis. Since this maybe the (low) bar to a good grade in this class, I will now do the same, with a passing reference to White, Klien & Martin (2014).

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I grew up in Mormonism, the "proud product" of polygamy on both sides of my family tree. We lived a sheltered existence in the intermountain west. The Mormon Church is a cradle to grave religion, a sophisticated cult. The Mormon Church was vehemently opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Our family was poor, I grew up with traditional family values in a loving but sheltered existence. I grew up in a traditional household. My mother listened to my father. My father was the head of the family but my mother was the neck. This is what makes family strong, traditional non-bra burning families. In Russia, "feminism" is a considered a vulgar word. Yet Russian women are much, much stronger than America women. Russian women dress beautifully. The put on makeup, they are traditional beautiful women. They support their men in a role which has existed in cultures for millennia.

White, Klein, & Martin, T (2015) argue that "there have been three historically distinct epochs [waves] in feminism". The first wave was the woman's suffrage movement which was started in large part by the Quakers, an anti-war "church" (which I am a proud member of). One may fully support this wave. One may posit positively that the second wave was when women went into the workforce during World War Two. One may posit that the third wave was the 1960s, which was an extreme form of feminism, an extreme zealot culture war which is still being waged today.

Americans love culture wars. If they are not arguing about feminism, they are arguing about "fat shaming", equal rights for women, racism, abortion and gun rights, all the while Americans are collectively killing 6 million people worldwide since World War 2 (Tirman, 2012). Out of sight out of mind. While feminist were burning bras (with materials designed in other countries which were overthrown by America in the past), our government was bombing women in Cambodia and Laos in a widening of the Vietnam War. While American women were arguing about the 70 cents to a dollar that they made in the workforce in the 1980s, the Reagan administration was overthrowing Nicaragua and killing massive amounts of women. Today, as American women argue about Trump's "pussy tape", Saudi Arabia is using American bombers with American trained pilots to drop American bombs on women in Yemen. Where is the outrage about this from the woman's movement?

The women's movement in America is a movement of fat women demanding a richer lifestyle. By "fat" I mean fat on the consumption built on the women's graves in other countries.

America is a country of extremes – you are either against gun rights or you are for gun rights, you are either a racist or not, you either support the second amendment or you are anti-gun, you are either pro-life or pro-choice. There is no in between there is no middle ground. Your either a male chauvinist pig or a "femi-nazis". And all the while tens of thousands of women are dying with American bombs. I do not miss Americans self-righteousness and stark hypocrisy.

What is feminism?

A feminist is a woman that breaks up traditional families. One may posit that an extreme feminist is a woman who is directly responsible for the high skyrocketing divorce rates in the United States.

References

Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars? Tirman, J. (2012). Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars? Washington Post. Retrieved from: Why do we ignore the civilians killed in American wars? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars/2011/12/05/gIQALCO4eP_story.html

White, J.M., Klein, D.M., & Martin, T.F. (2015). Family theories: An introduction (4th Ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Files

• File:CHAPTER 7 family theories sociology.pdf
• File:negy2013 Young Adults’ Attitudes Toward Polygamous marriage.pdf
• File:Week 5 consumption Rich people family theory Chapter 7 of white 400 word paper.docx
• File:z Attitudes Towards Polygamy Between Members and NonMembers of the LDS Church.pdf
• File:z nielsen2010 Religious orientation, religious affiliation, and boundary maintenance The case of polygamy.pdf
• File:APA sample paper.pdf
• File:Bailey Week 5 paper Perceptions of Polygamy in the United States.docx

Note to professor

Important and vital note to the teacher's assistant grading this initial paper:

I simplified sections of chapter 7 for a broader audience, making complicated words and phrases more easy to read and understand. I believe research papers should be similar to books that Malcolm Gladwell, Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson writes: Books which appeal to a wide audience. The high social status common words that this article uses are preventing people like me, from a poor (low socioeconomic background) from being accepted as a more serious and prestigious published author. I have two books in publish print. The irony is that you may mark me down in this assignment because of my poor family background.

--Thank you, Travis Lee Bailey, Esq. MoscowAmerican.com