Even thirty years after junior high school you can still find adults playing the game of wanting to be socially accepted, filling pressured to fulfil certain social criteria to be considered a respectable individual. One's respectability is typically based upon their occupations, whom they associated themselves with how they look. Variables such as Occupation, Prestige, and Income can determine one’s outlook in life and social mobility throughout society.
Society has this tendency to flock to more attractive people that seem like they have it made “Mr. Suit-and-Tie” as Bill Bear, a plumber, from a documentary called ”People Like Us”. Bill discusses briefly how he often overlooked in society because of the way he dresses: “[ Waiting in line to pay a bill ] ...They don’t want to deal with me. They want to deal with Mr. Suit-and-Tie... I almost started a riot I had to make it known, I was next… just because I have on working class clothes doesn’t mean I can’t afford to pay my bills (Gilbert 35). The average plumbers annual salary $51,000. A person’s occupation “describes the major works he or she does... and is a key determinant of one’s class position”, but does not grant one status (Gilbert 272).
Prestige is “social esteem of power, attitude of respect given when in social interactions” (Gilbert 274). Tammy an underclass mother …show more content…
In the film ”People Like Us ” Vessa Rinehart was consistently attracting men from the underclass who men “ who [didn't] have a job and [didn’t] have a car”. Rinehart drafted Ginie Sayles as her life coach to socially accepted into the upper class. Ginie Sayles has “develop to mix confidently with the upper class”: for example wearing bright colors, standing 12-13 inches from them when holding a conversation (PLU). What ones has to do to gain social prestige has nothing to do with how much money you make, but by what and whom you associate yourself
Society has this tendency to flock to more attractive people that seem like they have it made “Mr. Suit-and-Tie” as Bill Bear, a plumber, from a documentary called ”People Like Us”. Bill discusses briefly how he often overlooked in society because of the way he dresses: “[ Waiting in line to pay a bill ] ...They don’t want to deal with me. They want to deal with Mr. Suit-and-Tie... I almost started a riot I had to make it known, I was next… just because I have on working class clothes doesn’t mean I can’t afford to pay my bills (Gilbert 35). The average plumbers annual salary $51,000. A person’s occupation “describes the major works he or she does... and is a key determinant of one’s class position”, but does not grant one status (Gilbert 272).
Prestige is “social esteem of power, attitude of respect given when in social interactions” (Gilbert 274). Tammy an underclass mother …show more content…
In the film ”People Like Us ” Vessa Rinehart was consistently attracting men from the underclass who men “ who [didn't] have a job and [didn’t] have a car”. Rinehart drafted Ginie Sayles as her life coach to socially accepted into the upper class. Ginie Sayles has “develop to mix confidently with the upper class”: for example wearing bright colors, standing 12-13 inches from them when holding a conversation (PLU). What ones has to do to gain social prestige has nothing to do with how much money you make, but by what and whom you associate yourself