Confronting Inequality Essay

For years, in the United States society has been fractured into social classes, between the upper, middle and working class citizens. Social class determines the opportunities that a person has that deals with their economic and social-economic status. Many people in the United States believe that citizens from different social economic backgrounds have an equal chance of living achieving the “American Dream”. However social class has created divisions and inequality in our society “Ever since America’s founding, our idea of ourselves has been that of a nation without sharp class distinctions” (Krugman 587). Due to inequality in social class in American has created a barrier to prevent citizens who are working/middle class to have an equal opportunity, opposed to the upper class citizens who are able to live a successful life. The article that I can relate to is Paul Krugman’s “Confronting Inequality”. Krugman describes the social inequalities with being ascribed to a class and provides solutions on how to end social-economic inequality in the United States. Sociological economics class has always been part of my life and has also …show more content…
We recently moved out from the city of Detroit, and now reside in the suburbs of Sterling Heights. Ever since my parents regain their ascribed social status, they have slowly started to gain the oppurintuties of doing extra- curricular activities like they did before they were laid off. Although I am happy that parents regain their social status, it changed my view of how working/middle class citizens go through on a daily basis. As a middle class citizen, I always thought that my family would always be financial stable and never thought my family would become working- class citizens. I also believed that working class citizens were considered lazy and unsuccessful. Until, I was in the position of the daily struggles of being a working- class