Class

what I was up for being that, this is an English class. I figured there would be lots of reading, but to my surprise there is very little reading and lots of movement! So far, I am enjoying the class and the exercises we have practiced. I consider myself to be very confident and comfortable in most group settings. Going into any class I am ready to contribute my ideas and express my thoughts and opinions freely, which is a bonus coming into this class because it requires group activities and…

Society The privileges that I have and I don’t give much thought to are: have freedom of speech, I can say what I want living in America. I can eat when or what I want to eat, nobody can tell me what to eat or not except my parents but I still eat what I want. The freedom of driving whenever or where ever I desire. I am free do drive to Los Angeles when I feel like it, if I want to drive to Mexico, I have the freedom to do so if I have enough gas. I can apply to a job that I know I qualify to,…

Tuesday, September 13th: Filled up my 2quart pitcher with some H2O when I woke up at about 8:30. I keep it next to me while I go over my class work and watch TV. It gets drank before my first class at 1:30. I always carry water with me to my classes, if I forget I stop by stars to buy one. Not often do I eat breakfast. For lunch I had a turkey sandwich on wheat, no cheese. For dinner I had some soup with a salad. I like cottage cheese with salad, so I skip dressing because that should hold it…

In the early chapters of Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, the author shows the role of money in defining the economic class of New Yorkers in the late Victorian Era. However, when I first started reading the middle Chapters 8-15, I particularly thought about how money in that environment also defined her characters’ social class, and the calculated risks some characters took to boost their social rank. In writing this period piece, Edith Wharton focuses on those who aspired to be at the top of…

Class Structure in American Society According to Stanley Aronowitz, “class is deeply embedded in the recesses of our cultural and political unconsciousness.” This quote is particularly meaningful, because it is so true. Class determines almost everything we do weather we realize it our not. Class shapes who we are and where we would like to be as a person. This is something that is hard to understand for many because we often have no choice of what class we are in. The class that you are born…

Assignment 4 In Jean Anyon’s essay “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” she focuses on many schools whose curriculum have been carved out by social class. The lower the students families social class is the more repetitive and simple their curriculum will be, while on the other hand, the higher the social class is the more thought goes into the students coursework. Anyons basic point is that the work children are told and expected to do in school is the work that they will…

yes we are stuck with the differences of social class and thing will not get better because that is just how society is; but then you may find some may say, well yes things are getting better with the fact that statistics show the levels of good or bad maybe going up or down. I am going to have to say that it goes both ways. But we also have to look at the progressing that it is in today and will have in the future. Jean Anyon’s essay “Social Class and Hidden Curriculum of Work” is somewhat…

his sudden change in his beliefs when he suddenly wants to abandon all he has ever known in his life and break off from close childhood friends like Joe. Magwitch servers as a mentor who helps revert Pip back to his original self and views. Social class negatively affects personality and beliefs as Estella changes…

1. The class system ranks groups of people based on things such as education, wealth, and occupation. However, because there is so much variation between people, a framework is needed to form a consensus about who belongs to what class and why. The six-class system is the most widely used framework for that purpose. The six-class system is comprised of the upper class, upper-middle class, middle class, working class, and working poor (79). Each group is divided by education, occupation type…

lense out it becomes obvious. Within Milton M. Gordon’s Social Class in American Sociology” he defines social class in this passage: ” The horizontal stratification of population by means of factors related in some way to the economic life of the society….designated differences based on wealth, income, occupation, status, community power, group identification, level of consumption and family background.” The history of social class is very…