Essay On Socioeconomic Class

Invitational Essay Socioeconomic class is a very broad topic. It covers many things from income, education, and occupation. Socioeconomic class can also be a very hard thing to determine for many people. Most kids when they are growing up manage to do extracurricular activities, this can range from playing on a league basketball team to taking ballet classes or just extra tutoring. The amount a child is able to do as they grow up can largely depend on their socioeconomic class. Now some may say it has nothing to do with that but if you think about it does. Previously stated it was said that socioeconomic class is based on income, education, and occupation. Well a child’s ability to participate in extracurricular activities is based on at least one of those things. Most extracurricular activities will require parents or guardians to pay money for their child to participate. It can be just paying for the class or tutoring, or paying for the …show more content…
For the poor it is very unlikely that the families will be able to afford to pay for extracurricular activities but as we go up in class the more activities the child is likely to be able to do. This can be seen in the essay “”When Class Became More Important to A Child’s Education Than Race” By Sarah Garland”. It can be plainly seen that the two families used in the essay live quite close to each other but they are in complete opposite spectrums of socioeconomic class. The Klaitman-Smalls family is in the higher end of the middle class of society while the Lynch family is in the lower middle class of society. This can be seen by how they parent their children. The Klaitman-Smalls family can afford all the expensive classes for their children, while the Lynch family cannot and are having to worry more about how they are going to pay for their children to go to a nicer school than they