Class Indicators
Nov. 15th, 2012 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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deconstructing_classHi class-mates! (did you see what I did there?) I have thoughts about class this morning.
During a discussion some few years back a faculty member/administrator shared a comment the former VP made about hydrangeas in her yard being a class marker. I'm not familiar enough with US class markers to know what my yard says about me - boxwood, azaleas, dogwood trees, camellias and some low-growing cedar bush are all planted in my front yard. Does my shrubbery indicate middle class while my lack of mowing and pruining indicates something else?
I also had a conversation with my boss about leaving his jacket at home this morning, and wondered how you forget your jacket when you walk out of the house when its 50something degrees outside, and then I remembered that he has a two car garage (that isn't filled with tools, old paint and boxes of who knows what). Is that a (middle?) class indicator too?
During a discussion some few years back a faculty member/administrator shared a comment the former VP made about hydrangeas in her yard being a class marker. I'm not familiar enough with US class markers to know what my yard says about me - boxwood, azaleas, dogwood trees, camellias and some low-growing cedar bush are all planted in my front yard. Does my shrubbery indicate middle class while my lack of mowing and pruining indicates something else?
I also had a conversation with my boss about leaving his jacket at home this morning, and wondered how you forget your jacket when you walk out of the house when its 50something degrees outside, and then I remembered that he has a two car garage (that isn't filled with tools, old paint and boxes of who knows what). Is that a (middle?) class indicator too?
