Class Backgrounds and Our Strengths
Each class background will tend to confer certain advantages on its members. Working-class people, for example, will tend to competence and “getting the job done,” to cooperation with others, to ability to survive. Middle-class people will generally have access to information or know where to find it, to think in terms of organization and responsibility rather than individual roles only. Owning-class people have generally been left with confidence that initiative can be taken by them in any direction.
If we become skilled at eliminating the patterns involved in class roles, we will be left with only our strengths.
Of course, the patterns that we face in our clients will be individual and unique also, as individual and unique as the individuals whom they affect.
From page 292 of “The Chronic Patterns of Classism” in A Better World
(Present Time 206, January 2022)