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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798300003321

Titolo

Working in class : recognizing how social class shapes our academic work / / edited by Allison L. Hurst and Sandi Nenga

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4758-2254-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/9826942

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States

Low-income college students - United States

Educational mobility - United States

Social classes - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Research; 1 Class as a Force of Habit; 2 Controlling for Class; 3 Class, Academia, and Ontologies of Global Selfhood; 4 Survival Strategies for Working-Class Women as Junior Faculty Members; Part Two: Teaching; 5 Boundary Crossing; 6 Lessons Learned; 7 Making Class Salient in the Sociology Classroom; 8 Witnessing Social Class in the Academy; 9 The Classroom Crucible; Part Three: Work in the Academy; 10 Working-Class, Teaching Class, and Working Class in the Academy; 11 "We're All Middle Class Here"; 12 Narrating the Job Crisis

13 Capitalizing ClassReferences; Index; About the Contributors