Similarities Between Social Class And Culture

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‘Social class is conceptualized…”(Culture and Social Class), I feel as though social class and culture can have some similarities, but also be so different at the same time. For me I believe people are put into social class as a judgment. For me social classes are large categories for that Americans and other countries put people into for organization, but also a way to find out whom they can tax. People everywhere could wear the worst clothes, but then go home and actually have a lot of money and no want to show it. That is how I see social class. I feel as that social class is put into the top one percent, middle working class, and lower class. I feel in this position culture tends to play a role; my parents are middle class workers, our values are to work hard for what you want, but bragging is a huge NO! If I had to live on my own I would be considered a low class workers because I don’t work enough or make enough to live on my own. …show more content…
My culture is believes that people should work hard to get what they want and not let things just be handed to you everyday. I find it interesting that culture plays such a big role in social class, because I didn’t really think so before reading this article and watching some videos. I believe that my culture really comes from my parents and how they have raised me. After reading this it makes sense, you would want to work somewhere that you can grow to your values and norms, be the someone’s you grew up as and be able to know what your cultures rights and wrongs are. How many different cultures do you think work in one building, and how many different wrongs or rights are would there be for that many cultures? I feel as though there would be a lot especially depending on what city you are placed

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