American middle class

Low-income families constantly struggle with this issue, causing increased stress on family dynamics. While there are potentially many groups that are affected by housing affordability in New York, I would like to focus on the subgroups of African Americans, Hispanics and Immigrants. A study shows that families that are paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing are considered cost burdened and may have difficulty affording necessities such as food, clothing, transportation and…

Inequality/Social Class Introduction Health inequality is when the health of two or more people is decided based on their socioeconomic situation. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, social class is “a division of a society based on social and economic status.” There are three types of social class. The first type of class is what sociologists refer to as the upper class. Class number two is referred to as the…

Colonial Social Class The first interesting topic I found on the website was about colonial social classes it went into detail about each social class within in that area, and about what each social class was entitled too. For instance, enslaved field hands such as field workers worked Monday through Saturday from sun up to sun down. These field hands mostly worked in the tobacco or cotton fields and they only had Sundays off for themselves. This form of labor was considered the most back…

The progressive movement was carried on the backs of middle-class citizens. These were people who were white-collar professionals, usually women deeply rooted in Christianity. The Progressive movement supported things like: scientific efficiency, political and economic reform, and social/civil justice for the working class. In his book, Triangle, David Von Drehle walks the reader through a detailed journey of New York City in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. Conveniently, it is not long before…

social class and classism, including when these are compounded with other converging factors (social constructs), can affect an individual’s self-concept. (b) Provide an outline of the types of classism, an example of classism, and how it be manifested on a college campus. Social class is an interesting construct because it affects multiple identities, including gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, etc. No matter how a person chooses to identify, they will always have a social class.…

Cultural deprivation is a major theory in understanding underachievement. This is the theory working class culture is different from the other classes and this puts working class children at a disadvantage in many areas. For example, working class culture does not adequately prepare their children for academic success and so it holds back educational achievement. This can be shown by a number of pieces of research, an example is by Douglas (1964) who did a longitudinal study, a study of a…

backgrounds. The social origins and the capital of a person are now ruling the opportunities of an individual in America. It is clearly true that these components are unfair because a person from a high class can become whatever he wants because he got the chance to born in a ‘ wealthy family‘. As a social class and an unequal share of the wealth have shifted the significance of the education, it is maybe the time to rethink the system. Thomas Jefferson, former president of the USA has worked…

essay, “Class in America-2012”, Mantsios depicts different aspects of social class. It is fair to say that Mantsios is a believer that the rich exploit the poor, and that the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer. In his essay, there are four myths about class in America, ten realities of class in America, and three different profiles of people’s lives since birth, all of whom have different social class levels. Social class categorizes people into upper-call, middle-class, and…

The American teenager is an individual created by growing multiple cultural changes in our society. In his book The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager, author Thomas Hine describes this stage of life as energetic and exciting, adding that teenagers carry qualities our culture simultaneously loves and fears, such as boldness, greed and being idealistic (Hine, p. 10-11). The behavior of teenagers is influenced by a multitude of factors. One of those factors includes social class, which can…

Social Capital The well-known phrase, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know that counts,” can describe social capital. Robert Putman, a social capital theorist, defines the term as the “features of social organization such as networks, social norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.” Furthermore, social capital splits into two platforms: bonding and bridging. Bridging social capital is the type of networking or ties created between groups…