Inequality In Today's Society

The abounding amount of differing and clashing social ideologies of today’s societies can be seen as valuable aspects that galvanize individuals to make beneficial advancements in society in order to improve the future; however, they can also undermine society in the sense that they can generate controversial concerns such as: questionable socially shared ideas, sexism, subculture versus counterculture, exploitive social arrangements, and how lower-class individuals’ cultural capital affects their lives. Firstly, everyone has questioned or even abandoned a socially shared idea that they once believed in. Growing up in a religious household, going to church every Sunday was a weekly routine; however, as aged church became an almost dreadful-like experience. I am not at all saying that I hate church, but I do not understand why it is necessary to attend it routinely. I …show more content…
11). Also, everybody has a cultural capital. Since cultural capital has to do with growing up, one aspect of cultural capital is that it explains how inequality affects children’s education in our education systems. According to Rigging the Game by Michael Schwalbe, “Inequality thus is reproduced because children who lack middle-class or upper-middle-class cultural capital don’t develop the human capital that would help them get ahead” (Schwalbe, 2015, p. 12). Cultural capital is also important when getting a job or moving up the ladder at a current job. Generally, when a person is applying for a job, if they don’t fit the – typically middle-class or upper-middle-class – employer’s criteria, the applicant is denied the job. This is due to the fact that most employers’ criteria are directly focused upon people in the middle-class or upper-middle-class, not the people in the