Does Classism Help Us to Understand Class Oppression?
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online. Pincus, F. L. and Sokoloff, N. J. Abstract: In recent years, the concept of classism has emerged in the discourse of intersectionality and is often used along with racism and sexism to describe a matrix of oppression. The argument is usually made that these three systems of oppression are equivalent and interrelated. We review the history of classism as a concept and argue that class oppression is different than race and gender oppression. In addition, we show that many scholars who use classism as a concept often fail to capture important aspects of class oppression because they don’t include in-depth discussions of capitalism. The Conspiracy of Good Taste – stefan-szczelkun.org.uk/taste/Introduction.html “I have painful insights into the nature of working class oppression from my own history. This is a quality of knowledge that has yet to find a
