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Essay heading: Social Class and Academic Performance
 
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Class Status There are a variety of advantages that one receives, whether they are tangible or not, based on certain criteria that place you on societies ladder. This ladder is known as class. “At the structural level, social identities reflect divisions in society that are marked by systematic material and/or power inequities...
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Thus, class identity is marked by the fact that those with wealth have privilege and power compared to those without” (O’Connor, 2001, p. 159 – 160). This seems to imply that wealth is the only determining factor when considering one’s class. However, there are more components to class than simply economic standing...
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