Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Many writings emphasize repressive aspects of authoritarian regimes and resistance against them from society. Paying attention to long-standing stability of the Park Chung Hee regime (1961-1979), this paper attempts to investigate one way in which repressive regimes generate political legitimacy and examines class politics as a ruling strategy of the regime and its reactions. In the 1960s, both working class and middle class were the beneficiaries of a rapid economic developmental project and pseudo-hegemony was formed corresponding to the expansion of the total economic scale. However, the social base for popular support attenuated in the 1970s as income disparity deepened and political repression grew severe. At times when anti-regime worker mobilization intensified, the urban middle class opted for the status quo aligning themselves with state ideology. In short, working class exclusion and middle class inclusion constituted the central mechanism for the generation of regime legitimacy and the necessary political coalition between the working and middle classes for wide opposition and democratization was blocked.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: In this study we compare participation and learning outcomes of students taking the introductory comparative politics class in three different formats, in the traditional, although technology based, classroom with a fully on-line course and a hybrid version. The classes we examine were taught by the same instructor with assistance by the same TA. All three classes were taught using WEBCT, Power Point Slides of the lectures, similar reading and research paper assignments, similar exams, and discussion groups. We provide a preliminary but systematic analysis of :
1. rates of class participation in discussions;
2. the quality of student comments and analysis of critical issues;
3. student performance on required papers;
4. understanding of key concepts in comparative politics, including a differentiation between more and less complex types of material;
5. student satisfaction with the instruction and class material.
The authors hypothesize that the student perceptions and learning outcomes for the two courses will differ significantly between the two introductory political science classes. We then examine some data from a hybrid version of the same course.

Publication Type: Presentation
Abstract: Social class creates differential access to resources and is a form of social inequity. Social class impacts the lived experience of individuals and impacts men and women differently, and merits increased attention from feminist psychologists (APA, 2007). Are we addressing issues of social class in our classes? Suggestions for teaching clinicians to develop class-sensitive knowledge, skills and attitudes will be provided.

Publication Type: Proceeding
Abstract: I argue that there are important links between social class and interests that reveal how class as a construction (no less than race and gender, for example) is fundamentally about power. I seek to examine the nature of those class-based relationships in order to elucidate more clearly my overall thinking about identity and why group-based representation rights are justified, indeed required, yet escape the essentialism associated with so much of the literature on group rights. In particular, I interrogate whether cultural difference (preferences, habits, dispositions, interests) is marked by class distinction and, if so, how? Is class defined and maintained by assigning social and cultural meaning to it? Likely it is some combination of the two. The answers to these questions are particularly important for what they reveal more broadly about the exercise of power in American politics; more specifically, insight into these relationships can provide valuable information about how to disrupt the cycle of systemic inequality. It is to these questions that I wish to turn in order to expand the scope of the project and increase the contribution that this work will make to the existing political science literature.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study applies the concept of intersectionality to Black women’s entrepreneurial activity. Specifically, I address the ways in which race, gender, and class intersect to inform working-class Black women’s decisions and experiences as hair salon owners. By placing Black women at the center of analysis, I explore business ownership from the perspective of a group that has frequently been overlooked in sociology of entrepreneurship research. My findings indicate that race, gender, and class create a very different picture of entrepreneurship for Black women than that which is revealed through existing research and scholarship.