Explain how the following social institutions create and reinforce systems of oppression and privilege: the family and education.

Explain how the following social institutions create and reinforce systems of oppression and privilege: the family and education. Provide examples to support your arguments. What policies can you think of that might alleviate some of the inequalities produced and maintained by these institutions?

How do some of the solutions developed by working-class and poor families to deal with economic difficulties reinforce traditional gender roles? How do they help to challenge these roles?

How does the status “illegal” impact transnational, undocumented, and mixed status families? What are some of the ways that families work to reframe the status of being undocumented as a source of solidarity and strength?

As discussed by Crow dog and Erdoes, policies and practices of educational institutions construct Native Americans and Native American culture as deviant. What other cultures are constructed as deviant by our educational institutions?

What do you see as some solutions to the racial achievement gap in education? What do you think is the likelihood of such solutions occurring?

In what ways has your class influenced the quality of education that you have received?

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Requirements: 1-2 pages