Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
About the author

Part I: UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL CLASS

1) A Starting Point
Class is more than money; Class is personal; Class is an intercultural experience; Class is individual perception; Class as a tool; A word about precision
Class as identity; Class as income and wealth; Class as capital; Class as education; Class as prestige; Class as occupation; Class as culture; Class as a system; Class as privilege and oppression; Class as role; Social Class on Campus; Campus majority social class; Class Is More than Money; A Tale of Five Students: Whitney Page, Louise, Misty, Ursula, And Eleanor; Class bubbles; The cast of characters – Whitney Page; The cast of characters - Louise; The cast of characters - Misty; The cast of characters - Ursula; The cast of characters - Eleanor; What will likely happen to these women?; Money, culture, and social class of origin; Social class contrast and fit on campus; Social Class Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

2) Your Experience and Social Class
The Privilege Meme; Where You Start Matters; Starting with boundaries; Starting with individuals; Starting with groups; Starting with politics; Starting somewhere; Where I Start; Historical views of class; Plato and class; Christianity and class; China and class; Hindu class; Native Americans and class4; Mark and Engels on class; Class and Anti-Class; Key Words and Secret Language; In conclusion; Experience; Write a personal classnography; Reflection questions; Discussion questions

3) Class Myths
“Class doesn’t exist in the USA.”; “We are all middle class anyway.”; “The working class is disappearing.”; “Once you get a degree you are no longer working class.”; “Education is the key to upward mobility.”; “College is open to anyone who wants to work hard.” ; “You can’t separate class from ethnicity” ; “All white people are the same.” ; “People talk about class because they don’t want to confront ethnicity and gender”; “Everyone knows about class”; “The world is a meritocracy”; Myth and reality; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

4) The Social Class Identity
Social Class Identity: Development; Social Class Identity: Maturity; Social Class Identity: Transition; Our Three Social Class Identities; Social Class Contrast; Social Class Transition; Managing multiple social class identities; Alternation; Integration; Assimilation; Accommodation; Support for Social Class Transition; Class Passing; Class as Role; Summary; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

5) The Majority Class Student Experience of Class on Campus
Choosing how we name classes; Misty Goes to College; So What?; Ursula Goes to College; So What?; Eleanor’s Story; So What?; Marking class on campus; The reproduction of class; College as a confirmation experience: The world of accommodation; Campus Class Markers: Fashion; Campus Class Markers: Language; Campus Class Markers: Social Interaction; Campus Class Markers: Organizational Structure; Campus Class Markers: Leadership; Campus Class Markers: Learning Experiences; Campus Class Markers: The Physical Campus; Class Passing; The monoculture campus; The dangers of being the majority; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

6) The Minority Class Student Experience of Class on Campus
The lower class experience on campus; College as a conversion experience: The world of assimilation; Whitney Page’s Story; So What; Louise’s Story; So What; Deficit model of class: Rising up the under class; Class and minority status as stress; College as an evangelical experience; Summary; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

7) The Campus Ecology of Class
The Campus Social Class Human Aggregate; Gender and ethnicity; The average; The Campus Social Class Physical Environment; The meaning of objects; The Campus Social Class Organizational Environment; The Campus Social Class Constructed Environment; Summary; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

Part II: MANIFESTATIONS OF SOCIAL CLASS

8) Class as Income and Wealth
A case study; Classic views of class groups based on income; Naming income classes;
Income as more than income; So what?; Class as wealth; Us and Them: The Middle Income Class and the Other Income Classes; The media fiction wealthy; So what?; Experience; Reflection Question; Discussion Question

9) Class as Capital
Bourdieu on Capital; Embodied cultural capital; Objectified cultural capital; Institutionalized cultural capital; Bourdieu on Social Capital; Other kinds of capital;
Academic Capital; Leadership Capital; Spiritual, Moral, Values, and Ethical Capital; Language Capital; So What - Implications for Campus; Summary; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

10) Class as Education
Social Class and the Campus; The Individual Effects of Education; Summary; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

11) Class as Prestige
A Prestige Experience; Your prestige class; Cost and prestige; Ranking and Prestige;
Keeping up with the “others”; Prestige and class; Prestige and College; Competition; Prestige in Perspective; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

12) Class as Occupation
Income and Occupational Prestige; Occupational Prestige and Social Dominance;
Occupations and class summary; Experience ; Reflection Questions ; Discussion Questions

13) Class as Culture
Subcultures and Education; Etiquette; Class, culture, and language; Class, culture, and food; Class, culture, and fashion; Cultures in Competition; Student Cultures, Student Typologies; Faculty Cultures, Faculty Typologies; The Reproduction of Culture; Class, Culture, Privilege, and Oppression; Summary; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

14) Class, Ethnicity, and Gender: More complexity
Class and gender; Class and ethnicity; Class, gender, and ethnicity; Experience; Reflection Questions; Discussion Questions

15) Stories
Zach’s Story; Khou’s Story; Christina’s Story; Ken’s Story; Abe’s Story; Discussion Questions

16) What Can Anyone Do?
Things you can do about class; Things you can encourage others on your campus do about class

References
Index