Missing class
Subtitle: strengthening social movement groups by seeing class cultures
By: Betsy Leondar-Wright
Publisher: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780801479205; 9780801452567
Subjects: Class consciousness; Intercultural communication; Social movements; Speech and social status; Social classes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: activist class cultures as a key to movement building; title: Why look through a class lens? : five stories through three lenses; title: Applying class concepts to US activists; title: Four class categories of activists and their typical group troubles; title: Movement traditions and their class cultural troubles; title: Where is everybody? : approaches to recruitment and group cohesion; title: Class speech differences I : humor and laughter; title: Activating the inactive : leadership and group process solutions that backfire; title: Class speech differences II : abstract and concrete vocabulary; title: Class speech differences III : racial terms; title: Diversity ironies : clashing anti-racism frames and practices; title: Class speech differences IV : talking long, talking often; title: Overtalkers : coping with the universal pet peeve; title: Class speech differences V : anger, swearing, and insults; title: Activists behaving badly : responses to extreme behavior violations; title: Class speech differences VI : missing class talk; title: Conclusion : building a movement with the strengths of all class cultures.