Class Analysis Throughout my 19 years of life I’ve lived a great life. I have a great house to live in, a family that loves me unconditionally, abundance amounts of clothing, food has never been an issue, I’ve gotten pretty much everything I have ever wanted in life and I’m beyond blessed because of it. I’ve never had to struggle with what I’m going to eat the next day, or where I’m going to live next, and I think I’ve taken those aspects of my life for granted because not everyone is as grateful as I have been. It never really crossed my mind either, I’ve seen people on the streets, and I have heard of people going to a third world country to help those in need, but it never seemed like it affected my life in any way. I’m in a good place
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My parents grew up less privileged than I have been, but times were different also back then. My mom grew up in a wealthier family than my dad. My moms, mom was a stay at home mom with four children. My moms, dad was a successful entrepreneur, that later become and is still today the treasure of Scott County Iowa. Neither of my grandparents on that side attended college. On my dads side of the family, my grandpa worked at Car Quest his whole life, and made a good living off of it. My grandma at first was a stay at home mom but with four kids money started becoming really tight. So, my grandma went back to school and became a nurse. My moms social class growing up was more of the upper middle class, whereas my dads social class was more working class at first then moved up to upper middle class. My dad at first lived in relative poverty, they could afford the necessities they needed but nothing extra. My parents both have amazing jobs today that support our family well beyond what is needed. My mom didn 't go to college, she went to beauty school. Today, she owns her own salon in Davenport. My dad went to three different colleges and got his degree at St. Ambrose University as a financial …show more content…
My dad achieved this status, because of what his occupation is and how much work he put into it. I’ve lived in the same house since I was a year old. With that being said, my neighborhood is for the most part an Upper Middle Class neighborhood. We live in a type of neighborhood that mostly all of the houses look alike. The houses range from 3 bed room houses to 5 bed room houses which that’s what my house is. I always hung out with the kids in my neighborhood in grade school until I went to high school then I started hanging out with different people. Because of the Social Mobility jump my family and I went through, it wasn 't a big jump by any means, but because of that jump in high school I started hanging out with kids more in my social class, because my parents started to as well. So, my parents friends always had kids my age, and in grade school I never went to the same school as them until high school, so they were the kids I would hang out with. Not only because of what class they were in, it was because those were the people I was always around, because I’m not the type of person that will say I can’t be friends with you because you 're in a different class than me, that’s just the way it seemed to work out at my high school. The social cohesion in our society
My parents grew up less privileged than I have been, but times were different also back then. My mom grew up in a wealthier family than my dad. My moms, mom was a stay at home mom with four children. My moms, dad was a successful entrepreneur, that later become and is still today the treasure of Scott County Iowa. Neither of my grandparents on that side attended college. On my dads side of the family, my grandpa worked at Car Quest his whole life, and made a good living off of it. My grandma at first was a stay at home mom but with four kids money started becoming really tight. So, my grandma went back to school and became a nurse. My moms social class growing up was more of the upper middle class, whereas my dads social class was more working class at first then moved up to upper middle class. My dad at first lived in relative poverty, they could afford the necessities they needed but nothing extra. My parents both have amazing jobs today that support our family well beyond what is needed. My mom didn 't go to college, she went to beauty school. Today, she owns her own salon in Davenport. My dad went to three different colleges and got his degree at St. Ambrose University as a financial …show more content…
My dad achieved this status, because of what his occupation is and how much work he put into it. I’ve lived in the same house since I was a year old. With that being said, my neighborhood is for the most part an Upper Middle Class neighborhood. We live in a type of neighborhood that mostly all of the houses look alike. The houses range from 3 bed room houses to 5 bed room houses which that’s what my house is. I always hung out with the kids in my neighborhood in grade school until I went to high school then I started hanging out with different people. Because of the Social Mobility jump my family and I went through, it wasn 't a big jump by any means, but because of that jump in high school I started hanging out with kids more in my social class, because my parents started to as well. So, my parents friends always had kids my age, and in grade school I never went to the same school as them until high school, so they were the kids I would hang out with. Not only because of what class they were in, it was because those were the people I was always around, because I’m not the type of person that will say I can’t be friends with you because you 're in a different class than me, that’s just the way it seemed to work out at my high school. The social cohesion in our society