LEADER 04976nam 2200733 450 001 9910463958303321 005 20211207024907.0 010 $a0-8014-7070-6 010 $a1-322-52258-8 010 $a0-8014-7071-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801470714 035 $a(CKB)2670000000543830 035 $a(OCoLC)874563407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10850180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001136153 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12438865 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136153 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11102439 035 $a(PQKB)11146206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138580 035 $a(OCoLC)1080551562 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58415 035 $a(DE-B1597)496392 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801470714 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138580 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10850180 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683540 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000543830 100 $a20140403h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMissing class $estrengthening social movement groups by seeing class cultures /$fBetsy Leondar-Wright 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cILR Press :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8014-7920-7 311 0 $a0-8014-5256-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Tables and Figures --$tList of Online Tables and Appendixes --$tIntroduction: Activist Class Cultures as a Key to Movement Building --$tPart I. Class Diversity among Activists --$t1. Why Look through a Class Lens? Five Stories through Three Lenses --$t2. Applying Class Concepts to US Activists --$t3. Four Class Categories of Activists and Their Typical Group Troubles --$t4. Movement Traditions and Their Class-Cultural Troubles --$tPart II. Activist Class Cultures and Solving Group Troubles --$t5. Where Is Everybody? Approaches to Recruitment and Group Cohesion --$t6. Activating the Inactive: Leadership and Group-Process Solutions That Backfire --$t7. Diversity Ironies: Clashing Antiracism Frames and Practices --$t8. Overtalkers: Coping with the Universal Pet Peeve --$t9. Activists Behaving Badly: Responses to Extreme Behavior Violations --$tAcknowledgments --$tAppendix: Methodology Notes --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aMany activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements. The first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Missing Class looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and progressive traditions. Leondar-Wright applies Pierre Bourdieu's theories of cultural capital and habitus to four class trajectories: lifelong working-class and poor; lifelong professional middle class; voluntarily downwardly mobile; and upwardly mobile. Compellingly written for both activists and social scientists, this book describes class differences in paths to activism, attitudes toward leadership, methods of conflict resolution, ways of using language, diversity practices, use of humor, methods of recruiting, and group process preferences. Too often, we miss class. Missing Class makes a persuasive case that seeing class culture differences could enable activists to strengthen their own groups and build more durable cross-class alliances for social justice. 606 $aSocial classes$zUnited States 606 $aSocial movements$zUnited States 606 $aSpeech and social status$zUnited States 606 $aClass consciousness$zUnited States 606 $aIntercultural communication$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial classes 615 0$aSocial movements 615 0$aSpeech and social status 615 0$aClass consciousness 615 0$aIntercultural communication 676 $a303.48/40973 700 $aLeondar-Wright$b Betsy$01039438 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463958303321 996 $aMissing class$92461660 997 $aUNINA