It is no surprise that lower income students typically do not have the same resources available to them compared to individuals in the middle class. In Annette Lareau’s Invisible Inequality she states, “Working-class and poor parents’ conceptions of …show more content…
Instead, this failure can be explained through the “Social Imagination” which is defined as a “quality of mind that allows people to see the intersection. In order to achieve greatness and try to improve a living situation, one must understand the social forces affecting our life” and unfortunately, this is not possible because the scarcity of educated individuals limits the amount of what can be seen and understood from a sociological perspective. Therefore, with a lack of bases as to why a horrible cycle keeps occurring no one is able to see their way out of the cycle, allowing it to reoccur over and over