Socioeconomics

Barbara Kingsolver, display front and center the emotional and financial hardship that their socioeconomic class faces on a day-to-day basis. The balancing act between providing a meaningful Christmas, while keeping a balanced budget provides a challenge to the Turnbows. Class difference maintains the economic cycle that perpetuates the never-ending battle of affordability versus value for the lower socioeconomic class. As a result, the commercialist struggle interferes with the true meaning of…

social support (Turner and Lloyd, 1999). Poverty affects the way people feel and perceive the world. Moreover, People living in the lower socioeconomic status suffer from mental illness two to three times more than those in the higher socioeconomic status.…

While college acts as the prepping stone into the working world, a student’s college major is the pathway towards their specific career goals and future opportunities. Typically, Biology majors want to go into the medical field; Political Science majors aspire to be lawyers, while Business and Economics majors dream of becoming successful in the corporate world. Analyzing trends in college major choice is a key factor to understanding the foundation of inequality within the workforce. The study…

For centuries, humans have made an attempt at discovering what makes a criminal a criminal. There are many theories and approaches that endeavor to explain criminal behavior. One theory, psychopathy, combines factors such genes and environment to explain deviant behavior. Psychopathy is used to explain some, but not all criminal behavior and has been widely accepted and researched by the criminal justice, psychology, and other science fields. Psychopathy and crime are closely linked to each…

In society, status and class are two of the most significant social forces that contribute to one’s own image. Not being born in the right social ranking can make life further difficult .This can inhibit the social mobility of an individual if they decide to move up a rung in the ladder of society. This social inequality plays a role in society that few people are able to manage .The social constructs of inequality are far reaching, and it even claws its way into the family. According to Dalton…

have found the development of creativity enhances the development of cognitive abilities and vice versa (Gouzouasis). Some sources assert that music has significant effects on the academic achievement of students of all ages, grade levels, and socioeconomic statuses. It is important to research and discover a variety of ways to enhance the education of students worldwide. Educators should do research on the positive effects of music on the education of their students.…

Academic Achievement Student’s academic achievement should represent intellectual growth and the ability to produce knowledge—but there are times that African American students fail to gain this privilege because of the teachers’ perception of AAE (Delpit, 2002). In the educational system, teachers tend to correct more miscues that are dialectical in nature in reading casts when students are African Americans. The teachers also expect lower intelligence, academic achievement, and reading skills…

our lives greatly. I have seen the difference first hand. In Golash-Boza, we see a graph on page 346, it shows that more people of color in an area the more hazardous waste facilities we see. This resonated with me. Personally, I live in a low socioeconomic neighborhood, but grew up in a middle class neighborhood. Around a year or so ago. I was walking and a news outlet was interviewing people, they had found an empty lot full of hazardous waste. It was in the middle of a neighborhood, hispanic…

therefore, choosing a mate of the same class makes it easier to see things eye to eye (Cote, Kraus, Piff, Beermann, and Keltner 2014). It is not to say that a marriage between different classes will not work, but it is implied that with a mix in socioeconomic status comes more conflict and greater divorce rates (McVeigh 2012). It is becoming more common for people to find their significant other later on in life; whether it be at one’s post-secondary institution or even in one’s place of…

The sources this proposed research preliminarily scoped can be classified into four parts, whereas the catalog will be supplemented and modified with the further process of research. First, in order to investigate the supply side of the opium commerce and the macroscopic background of colonial Hong Kong, the official governmental documents and archives will be consulted in this research. The preliminary list for this category contains: (1) The Historical and Statistical Abstract of the…