The American dream, a life full of opportunity in a land that is believed to give people everything they could ever ask for. Education is supposed to be the best and job opportunities are endless. America would like people to believe that starting out as an underdog, barely making ends meet, that with hard work, the ability to move throughout the social ladder will bring people out on top. The class system of America is flawed and the lower class and under class, are those who live below the poverty line and need government assistance, and do not always have the same opportunities or quality of education and employment that is promised. This is because of social stratification, which is ‘inequalities among individuals and groups within human
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The class system in the United States is “a large group of people who occupy a similar economic position in the wider society and have similar life chances to be able to achieve economic prosperity” (Pratt). These systems are supposed to be fluid and allow for those to climb the social ladder if given the opportunity (Pratt). However the lower and under classes are the most over looked and under helped. This paper will look at how the feminization of poverty directly correlates to child poverty and how the lack of education emphasis and employment opportunities are main reasons as to why women in these social classes are unable to have social mobility and pull themselves from …show more content…
This is the reason as to why their children live in poverty, because there is an unequal distribution of pay and discrimination against those who care for families and cannot devote themselves solely to a company. These issues of wage gaps and gender discrimination cause “intragenerational mobility which is how far an individual moves up or down the socio-economic ladder based on their life experiences, which will decrease the ability of intergenerational mobility which is the socio-economic mobility across generations” (Pratt). A women’s inability to climb the social ladder and pull themselves from poverty, trickles directly down to their children. There is a lack of emphasis on education which leads to their children in partaking in illegal activities that help them to provide for themselves and their families in a better way. The social stratification of the lowest class will cease to end unless there is a reframing of how people look at
The class system in the United States is “a large group of people who occupy a similar economic position in the wider society and have similar life chances to be able to achieve economic prosperity” (Pratt). These systems are supposed to be fluid and allow for those to climb the social ladder if given the opportunity (Pratt). However the lower and under classes are the most over looked and under helped. This paper will look at how the feminization of poverty directly correlates to child poverty and how the lack of education emphasis and employment opportunities are main reasons as to why women in these social classes are unable to have social mobility and pull themselves from …show more content…
This is the reason as to why their children live in poverty, because there is an unequal distribution of pay and discrimination against those who care for families and cannot devote themselves solely to a company. These issues of wage gaps and gender discrimination cause “intragenerational mobility which is how far an individual moves up or down the socio-economic ladder based on their life experiences, which will decrease the ability of intergenerational mobility which is the socio-economic mobility across generations” (Pratt). A women’s inability to climb the social ladder and pull themselves from poverty, trickles directly down to their children. There is a lack of emphasis on education which leads to their children in partaking in illegal activities that help them to provide for themselves and their families in a better way. The social stratification of the lowest class will cease to end unless there is a reframing of how people look at