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SPCL 7922 Multicultural Counseling and Consultation (Elizalde-Utnick): Session 7 - Module 7: Classism, Advocacy, & Intersectionality

Fall 2024

TASK LIST TO PREPARE FOR CLASS SESSION

Please complete the following PRIOR to our class session on October 21:

1. Readings/Case Scenario/Videos

READ the assigned articles and take notes

Wages - Culture of Classism

Wages - Poverty Stories

Foss-Kelly

The Case of Marisol

VIEW the two videos: 'Why Women are Paid Less than Men,' 'A Tale of Two Zip Codes,' and 'Gentrification Explained'

2. Blackboard Journal #6

Go to Blackboard to the Journal link and post to the "Exploring My Economic Background" journal.

3. Prepare for Quiz (RAT#7)

The 5-question multiple-choice quiz will be on the assigned readings and videos.

4. Submit Midterm Class Participation Google Form and Midterm Peer Evaluation Google Form by the MORNING of Sunday, October 27

Video: A Tale of Two Zip Codes (4:33)

SUMMARY

In this session we will explore the social construction of class and classism. Intersectionality will continue to be discussed. We will engage in case-based application activities and discussions.

SESSION SLIDES

VIDEO: WHY WOMEN ARE PAID LESS THAN MEN (NETFLIX; 18:32)

VIDEO: GENTRIFICATION EXPLAINED (7:30)

BLACKBOARD JOURNAL ACTIVITY

Exploring My Economic Background

  1. WORK: What do/did your parents or the people who raised you do for a living, paid or unpaid?
  2. EDUCATION: How far did your parents or the people who raised you go in school?
  3. INCOME: Where does/did the income that supported your family come from? (e.g., salary; hourly wages; income from family business or farm; stocks and bonds; inheritance; renters or roommates; public assistance/welfare; social security/veteran’s)
  4. IN YOUR HOUSE: How many people live in your home now or when you were growing up?
  5. HOUSING: Where did you live growing up? (e.g., house your family owned; apartment your family owned; “gated” community; rented house; rented apartment; public housing)
  6. SPACE: How much private, personal space did you have growing up? (e.g., your own bedroom; a shared bedroom; room with other family uses during the day)
  7. CLOTHING: Where did you get most of your clothes and footwear? (e.g., made at home; hand-me-downs; used clothing/thrift store; discount/grocery/drug store; department store; on sale; high-fashion or specialized clothing/shoe store)
  8. FOOD: Where did your family usually get food? (e.g., fast food restaurant; convenience store; warehouse discount store; supermarket; grow or produce your own food; specialty/gourmet market; sit-down restaurant)
  9. Growing up did you earn money or otherwise bring income into your home? Was this income necessary to support others in your home? Is it necessary, or partly necessary, to support you?
  10. When you think about all the above, what do you consider your economic background to be now? Note any way you think your economic or social standing might be different from that of your parent(s) and grandparents or might have changed in the last few years in any direction, and why.
  11. Is this difficult or uncomfortable for you to write about? Write about your feelings answering these questions and why you might feel this way.
  12. Think of an incident at school in which you were made to think about your economic background – something somebody said or did that made you think about your family and money or social standing, whether positive or negative. Describe the incident, and write about how you felt.