I think this is one of the most pressing aspects that people misjudge. A social class is defined as a group of people who share the same economic positions, but people make it much more complex than that. People look at the kind of job a person has or the color of their skin and place them in a class that they don’t necessarily belong to. In the reading “As American as Apple Pie: Poverty and Welfare,” it was brought to my attention that a majority of people will fall under the poverty line at some time in their life. Poverty has no color, yet at the same time people see black people in poverty and think it typical due to laziness or they are delinquent and can’t follow the law. Since people also associate lifestyle with class, then the so called “lazy” or “delinquent” life style of black people will place poverty stricken black people in a different class than poverty stricken white people because white people try harder, they just fell into a bit of bad luck (Social Class reading). I think this is a majority of people’s thinking but according to the American Pie reading this just isn’t true; which then again goes to show that there is a hierarchy in play among
I think this is one of the most pressing aspects that people misjudge. A social class is defined as a group of people who share the same economic positions, but people make it much more complex than that. People look at the kind of job a person has or the color of their skin and place them in a class that they don’t necessarily belong to. In the reading “As American as Apple Pie: Poverty and Welfare,” it was brought to my attention that a majority of people will fall under the poverty line at some time in their life. Poverty has no color, yet at the same time people see black people in poverty and think it typical due to laziness or they are delinquent and can’t follow the law. Since people also associate lifestyle with class, then the so called “lazy” or “delinquent” life style of black people will place poverty stricken black people in a different class than poverty stricken white people because white people try harder, they just fell into a bit of bad luck (Social Class reading). I think this is a majority of people’s thinking but according to the American Pie reading this just isn’t true; which then again goes to show that there is a hierarchy in play among