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Mere Exposure to Money Increases Endorsement of Free-Market Systems and Social Inequality
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Caruso, Eugene M.; Vohs, Kathleen D.; Baxter, Brittani; Waytz, Adam – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2013
The present research tested whether incidental exposure to money affects people's endorsement of social systems that legitimize social inequality. We found that subtle reminders of the concept of money, relative to nonmoney concepts, led participants to endorse more strongly the existing social system in the United States in general (Experiment 1)…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Social Systems
Inequality and School Reform in Bahia, Brazil
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Reiter, Bernd – International Review of Education, 2009
This article compares public and community schools in Salvador, the state capital of Bahia, Brazil. Based on quantitative data analysis and qualitative research conducted on-site during three research trips in 2001, 2003 and 2005, the author finds that Brazil's extreme inequality and the associated concentration of state power in a few hands stand…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Qualitative Research, Community Schools, Parent Participation
Race and Class in Britain: A Critique of the Statistical Basis for Critical Race Theory in Britain: And Some Political Implications
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Hill, Dave – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
In this paper, the author critiques what he analyses as the misuse of statistics in arguments put forward by some Critical Race Theorists in Britain showing that "Race" "trumps" Class in terms of underachievement at 16+ exams in England and Wales. At a theoretical level, using Marxist work the author argues for a notion of…
Descriptors: Health Services, Social Class, Ethnic Groups, Underachievement