In Gregory Mantsios’s “Class in America” he discusses the myths and realities of class differentiation. One thing he jumps into in the beginning of his essay is that Americans don’t prefer to talk about social class. Some people have even stated that they dislike using the word ‘class’ or ‘upper-class’ due to the reason that they believe it mows down their fortune and responsibility. Even though some Americans are concentrated on class identification Mantsios writes that most people aren’t aware of their actions to avoid this subject, this may be because of the fact that “…Class identity has been stripped from popular culture” (Mantsios, 282). It is now deemed ‘un-American’ to even compare certain issues with classes. When social class
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Success in the United States requires no more than hard work, sacrifice, and perseverance…” (283). This myth is debunked by Mantsios, when he made the American profiles of three people, each with a different social class, parents of these people have outlined their children’s lives by their expectations. The upper-class have been given the opportunities that it would take for their children to succeed, such as private schools, expensive gifts, and other chances to improve the skills they need to reach their expectations. With the working-class the expectations are lower and the schooling and skills that are needed are not provided. Everyone does not have an equal chance because the cycle of successful parents having successful children and failed parents having failed children keeps repeating itself. Jean Anyon contributes to this myth in her essay “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by stating that
“Scholars in political economy and the sociology of knowledge have recently argued that public schools in complex industrial societies like our own make available different types of educational experience and curriculum knowledge to students in different social classes”
Success in the United States requires no more than hard work, sacrifice, and perseverance…” (283). This myth is debunked by Mantsios, when he made the American profiles of three people, each with a different social class, parents of these people have outlined their children’s lives by their expectations. The upper-class have been given the opportunities that it would take for their children to succeed, such as private schools, expensive gifts, and other chances to improve the skills they need to reach their expectations. With the working-class the expectations are lower and the schooling and skills that are needed are not provided. Everyone does not have an equal chance because the cycle of successful parents having successful children and failed parents having failed children keeps repeating itself. Jean Anyon contributes to this myth in her essay “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by stating that
“Scholars in political economy and the sociology of knowledge have recently argued that public schools in complex industrial societies like our own make available different types of educational experience and curriculum knowledge to students in different social classes”