Wekker Chapter 4

Question 1

Discourse of Deprivation

Answer 1

• used by restaurant management and social workers
• place mats used to convince investors the people are deprived and have socioeconomic inequalities due to capitalism
• people didn’t like being told to change themselves bc it seemed like they were deprived

Question 2

Culture of Poverty

Answer 2

• working classes would stop fearing the others (cultural and ethnic groups) if they learned about them which would improve neighbourhood life and society
• Muslims not apart of community but should be invited to help white people be familiar with them

Question 3

Ethnic Leveraging

Answer 3

• one group is valorized with the purpose of distancing and devaluing another group
• working class visitors attempt to establish respectability and fight the stigma applied to them of being illogical by passing on this discourse of deprivation to ethnic and racial others