Social class

Social class is important in social work because we can understand how people can access to services or resources for society. According to Collins (2012) “Social class is affected by factors such as culture, ethnicity, education and gender.” (p.104).Then, we can see how social classes can have access on education and the roles that they have in society (gender roles and politics). Underclass Education: elementary school or basic education that may give access to have better lives. Gender…

Chapter Nine was about social Stratification which is just a fancy way of saying that society is split into many categories. The caste system is a system where a person is born into their roles or categories. This system seems unfair to a first world citizen like myself. The next notable system is the class system. This system is open, meaning that anyone can move between a class by marriage or education. Meritocracy is the most difficult system to pull off only because it's not possible to…

living there exhibited the social status of the culture and the importance of why the division of neighborhoods existed. Each area named by usage of word egg to signify who is wealthy East Eggers, working-class The West Egg and poor The Valley of the Ashes. In short, living for the rich described as going the prestigious colleges, having influence with the law, City official and being powerful due to their money. Of course, they lived in numinous…

The purpose of Thomas C, Wilson’s (2002) study, the paradox of social class and sports involvement is to present the paradox: “On the one hand, the higher one’s social class, the more likely one is to be involved in certain sports. But on the other hand, the higher one’s class, the less likely one is to be involved in certain sports that have come as a result to be associated with the lower classes” and to test two hypotheses (pg. 5). According to Wilson (2002), previous studies had shown that…

Tipton from upper-class suburbia, whose parents are lawyers, she will be destined to be a smarty-pants that excels in school and gets a high paying career after college. The culture one grows up in will influence what they aspire to become, but for some that is not always the case. For many students where they come from is what pushes them to become more than what society expects, but they will have a long journey ahead of them just because they do not come from the right social economic…

Social class, highly affects our society greatly to the point of where it influences over aspects and factors within today’s world. Ultimately, the higher the social class is the greater an individual can and will be treated within all social interactions and social aspects of life considering that they’re given “precedence” concerning lifestyle and opportunities that could possibly be viewed through the aspect of only seeing the glass half full. Evidently, those within a higher class will…

Throughout Old School, the narrator establishes the different social classes in the novel, showing the differences between the scholarship kids and the wealthy students. Social groups that are separated by economic status and racial classification damages how the narrator develops his identity because he is trying to assimilate into his environment by hiding race and financial instability. Categorizing people into classes affects humans and leads them to conceal themselves when trying to fit a…

It is fair to say that in the United States today there is a very clear division between the working class and the social elite. There are some who have it all, while there are some who are just scraping to get by, and in the middle are those who are working just to make enough to live a comfortable life. According to the film, Inequality For All it focuses on former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich and his push to wake America up and see that the gap between the rich and the poor is continuing to…

stop and think about social classes. Failing to be aware that social classes even exists. All of us come from a different place, to society that determines to what social class we fit into. Most Americans consider themselves middle class, but what they fail to realize is that there is upper class, middle class, lower class and every social class in between, they can easily fall under any other category. Nonetheless, a vast majority is correct to determine themselves as middle class. Many…

For the most part, I agree with the statement above due to the achievement levels of schools that contain different social classes. Students in the upper class are provided with a higher quality education than the middle class and the working class students receive a poor quality education. Students who live in neighborhoods with high poverty rates tend to receive the lowest quality education in the nation. These differences are due to amount and quality of materials, teachers and paraeducators,…