(1) ClassAccording to Brenda Allen in the chapter "Power Matters", she mentions that there are dominant identity ideologies which "reflect the perspectives and experiences of the ruling groups, including the members construct and circulate beliefs that will be most beneficial to them. We live in a country with dominant ideologies of organizational hierarchy, which “organizes positions in a stratified structure, with power flowing from the top down.” This illustrates the ideology of domination, which is a belief system in America that “the superior should rule over the inferior” (32). This ideology is so ingrained in our system that most people believe it to be natural. The American society we live in values ​​patriarchy, white supremacy, heteronormativity, and a specific culture of wealth and poverty; any identity that deviates from these dominant ideologies is marginalized and placed in the lower layers of social power. Allen supports his claims about hierarchies and power dynamics in his chapter “Social Class Matters.” She delves into the structures of society, examining power and class in various contexts. In this chapter, she explains that people are classified according to themes of class difference and struggle. Social class is associated with the relationship between power and the distribution of resources. Because this system of social class stratification is one of the greatest indicators of educational success, social identity plays an important role in the social reproduction of inequalities in the educational system.(2) RaceIn his book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, Michelle Alexander says we still use our criminal justice system to "label people of color as 'criminals' and then engage in...... middle of paper.. .... understand how social inequality is reproduced in the classroom and at school. Collins further speaks of economic, cultural and specifically linguistic reproduction. Linguistic capital is a more specific form of capital. It refers to the role of language and class in social reproduction. This concept was originally coined by Basil Bernstein, who argued that "the experience of the work process reinforces the types of family role relationships, themselves realized as discursive identities carried by 'elaborated' and 'codes'. restricted » » (39). We saw it in the 1960s; Poor African Americans have inadequate educational outcomes because they are culturally or linguistically disadvantaged. Not only is race a determining factor in the social reproduction of inequality, it is also a combination of how facets of our identity intersect with the changing values ​​and norms of our society...