The Game Of Monopoly Game Analysis

Everyday people around the world are faced with continuous unequal opportunities. During the game of monopoly we all got a small glimpse of what reality feels like for some people from being the richest of the rich to the poorest of the poor. The monopoly game represented as a model of the social inequality, social structure and social stratification, on the contrary, reality is much more complicated than the game. People of all classes are affected by these three major roles in today’s society. Social inequality is commonly known as the unequal opportunities between different economies. Wealth, income, power, education and race all make a contribution to social inequality. Social structure has transformed tremendously over the centuries in the United States, for example, the relationships between teachers and students, employers and employees have all made gradual changes over the years. Teachers are no longer allowed to punish students and employers are expected to treat their employees well with a great work environment and well paid wages. Social stratification is present more than ever in today’s society. The unequal distributions of wealth, power, and …show more content…
To me it seemed like the airplane was a representation of the “Old money” upper, upper class. She was given all of this money from the beginning and inherited almost forty-percent of the spaces on the board. The next person fell in the upper class, who owned a substantial income and owned about twenty-percent of the spaces. I would claim myself to have fallen under the working middle class category. I was given a decent amount of money that was livable, but not completely comfortable. Next was the working poor and she was just above the poverty line and struggled tremendously to keep from going bankrupt. Lastly, the french fries would be considered the underclass who were poor and caught in a long-term