Definition
The institutional, cultural and individual set of practices and beliefs that assign differential value to people according to their socio-economic class; and an economic system which creates excessive inequality and causes basic human needs to go unmet. (Wow. This is powerful.)
Related terms
Privilege, affirmative action, discrimination, equity, oppression, racialization, socially-imbued power, white privilege
Socioeconomic Status (SES)
Class identify, upper-middle class, lower-middle class, working class, individual classism, institutional classism, cultural classism, internalized classism
Class, class privilege, social capital, cultural capital, poverty class, owning class/rich, ruling class, status
- Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, Second Edition, Routledge, 2007