My family consists of 4 family members, and I live with my parents and grandmother. I would identify myself as living in a low middle social class family. My father have earned a college degree and operated a small engineering company, while my mother has graduated from high school, she is working as a manager in my father’s company. Both my father and mother are working together in the same company, they are earning for about $75,000 to $90,000 USD annually for the whole family. Thus, based on education level, occupation and income of my parents, I would conclude that my family could be place in the lower middle class on the social ladder using Dennis Gilbert and Joseph Kahl’s model of social class. As I was the only child in the family,
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Yet people with lower social class would have lesser opportunity to enrich themselves. I always feel glad to be in my high school, not only because it is one of the best, but they strive to create as much opportunity for us to experience. My high school was comparatively expensive for it is privately operated with some federal funding. Yet some high school are not required to pay, thus I would regard most people studying in my high school would have achieved a certain social class. My high school would like us to develop in skills and promote our social responsibility, thus we students are required to attend two 1-week program naming the student acidities week, we are asked to fulfil different task every year. It could be outdoor activities to train our survival skills – rock-climbing, abseiling, kayaking etc., or community service activities – visit elderly homes, picking up rubbish in the beach. There are not meant to just be filled in in our resume, but to let us live without books and other academic burden. I believe these experience could not be replaced in any ways. I believe I have become more mature than my peers outside my high school due to the correct guidance by my school. With more opportunities or access to resources, it is easier for people located in high social class to be successful. They can accumulate more experience,
Yet people with lower social class would have lesser opportunity to enrich themselves. I always feel glad to be in my high school, not only because it is one of the best, but they strive to create as much opportunity for us to experience. My high school was comparatively expensive for it is privately operated with some federal funding. Yet some high school are not required to pay, thus I would regard most people studying in my high school would have achieved a certain social class. My high school would like us to develop in skills and promote our social responsibility, thus we students are required to attend two 1-week program naming the student acidities week, we are asked to fulfil different task every year. It could be outdoor activities to train our survival skills – rock-climbing, abseiling, kayaking etc., or community service activities – visit elderly homes, picking up rubbish in the beach. There are not meant to just be filled in in our resume, but to let us live without books and other academic burden. I believe these experience could not be replaced in any ways. I believe I have become more mature than my peers outside my high school due to the correct guidance by my school. With more opportunities or access to resources, it is easier for people located in high social class to be successful. They can accumulate more experience,