Lamont

Moral boundaries

What type of boundaries are used as inclusion and exclusion criteria between different social classes and within them?

Different cultural and historical backgrounds

The morals of different groups are shaped by what?

• lives

• are

• worth

American working-class men use moral standards to:

• make sense of their ________

• help them define who they _______

• contribute to their sense of self-_______

White, black

There is a division in moral values between ________ and _________ American workers

Missing

Workers of both races view the other as _________ the moral standards they value and exemplify every day

Worthy, unworthy

Workers use the presence or absence of specific moral values to differentiate between those who are __________ or ______

• disciplined

• caring

• White American workers have a __________ view of the self

• Black American workers have a ________ view of the self

Integrity, sincerity, interpersonal skills

White American workers criticize professionals and managers by believing they lack what 3 qualities?

Their work ethic and responsibility

White American workers criticize which aspects of Black American workers’ work?

Exploitative

Black American workers strongly criticize the ________ nature of the upper-working class

Their domineering nature and lack of warmth and solidarity

Black American workers criticize which aspects of White American workers’ work?

It establishes social boundaries and legitimizes racist beliefs, therefore affecting the interactions between those 2 racial groups

What does using these moral standards and self-concepts do to social boundaries and racism?

Class consciousness

According to Marx, the morals used by both racial groups would be false ____ _____ because they justify the way the system abuses them using morality