The Titanic Social Class

Everyone belongs to a social class or a group of individuals who share the same economic status. Sociologist have agreed upon a social stratification ladder with six classes, ranging from the rich to the very poor. These social classes can be seen in popular movies like the Titanic and the Pursuit of Happiness, and even on Broadway in A Gentle Men’s Guide to Love and Murder. All these productions have one thing in common, they talk about how social class relates to an individual’s life chances, when class individuals belong to shape the chances for the good things to happen in one’s life. In the Titanic, the rich get to escape on the life boats while the poor die. The Pursuit of Happiness shows the life of a poor man and his struggle as he achieves the American dream. Finally, A Gentle Men’s Guide to Love and Murder tells the story about a disinherited aristocratic and his struggles as he becomes Earl of Highhurst. In their own way each one …show more content…
Even if they have different characters, endings, and even types of entertainment they all discuss the same theme of social stratification. In the topic of social stratification Marx is one of the first and most important theorist. He believed that social class was defined by the means of production, which are the resources and facilities that produce goods. Marx believed in a two class system in which the bourgeoisie resides as the ruling capitalist class while the proletariats reside as the working class. The description of both classes can be summarized as the bourgeoisie owning the means of production and the proletariats must sell their labor to earn a wage to be able to survive. A Gentle Men’s Guide to Love and Murder shows the ruling class or bourgeoisie as mean ill-fit to rulers that the common man