Essay On Social Classes In America

Mantisos in his article, The Class America, talks about how people avoid speaking about social class, describes the economic spectrum, the lifestyles of Americans, and power and oppression. The only class America likes to talk about is the middle class and whether they think it exists or not. People avoid the subject of class because they like to think it does not matter. The trust is it most definitely does and there are so many advantages to being in a higher class than others. The economic spectrum in which we live in is described in depth by Mantisos.

According to Gregory Mantsios in “Class in America: Myths and Realities,” social class has a large influence on your educational achievements through life. Examining the test scores of half a million children the, poor and rich, also known as the bottom and the upper quartile, Richard de Lone found the crucial influence of social status on SAT scores. Another study by William Sewell comparing the rich and poor found that the upper class was two times as likely to get more training after high school and four times as likely to complete a postgraduate degree primarily due to their socioeconomic class. Decided at birth from your class standing to your life chances.

All Americans don’t have an equal opportunity to succeed; inheritance laws provide built in privileges to the offspring of the wealthy, which just adds to the likelihood of their success (Colombo 392). In Gregory Mantsios article “Class in America,” he states that the social class you are in affects how you will succeed in school, relating to test scores and the level of schooling that you receive; thus determining how the rest of your life will turn out. He highlights many other beliefs that are broadly held about social classes and rebuts them using statistical evidence. Mantsios believes that the class a person resides in will determine their future more than he or she is willing to admit. Mantsios communicates that social class is prevalent in America, however I believe that it doesn’t determine a person’s fate.

Social Class is a significant aspect in determining ones social location because it places people into groups. My social class has affected my social location greatly because I’ve been granted with the essential resources to excel in life. I would consider myself a part of the middle class, due to my dad’s success in the business field. He is currently employed at Kellogg’s and makes over 100k a year. I grew up in a nice neighborhood in Tinley Park.

There is lower, middle, and upper class, but there are also subcategories that fill the gaps in between, like the impoverished and the top one percenters. “Class in America”, written by Gregory Mantsios, addresses the myths and realities about socioeconomic class in America and how they affect American lives. His article highlights the unequal divide that has persisted over the course of history and will continue to manifest in the future. To introduce the existence of this issue, Mantsios states that this country’s citizens “don’t like to talk about class...or class privileges, or class oppression, or the class nature of society” (Mantsios 378). This is the case in America today because people are neglecting to acknowledge the existence of these elusive

How does a person’s social class affect their successes? Daniel James Brown answers this question in his book The Boys in the Boat. People in lower classes tend to be more humble and hardworking than those in higher classes. Success means more to lower class citizens because they have to work for every piece of it. People of higher classes can, to some extent, ‘buy’ success with money.

After watching the video “people like us”, I believe that class is made by large number of people with similar economic status or position. On the other hand, you can find people who try to fit in upper social class i.e. “Tammy’s Story”. Tammy lives with her four children’s in a trailer. She works as janitor in a local burger shop. Her job helps her pay the bills.

During the 1800s, the way of life was different than modern society. For one, social classes determined the amount of respect and happiness you receive. The three classes, aristocrats, middle class, and lower class, determine how you get treated in society. The highest class, or the aristocrats, receive a lot of respect, while the lowest class receive no respect. Today, different social classes can benefit each other by trying to break down barriers and help each other in need.

Within social mobility, many people fail to have a sense of the realization of the American Dream because of the fewer advantages and more problems minorities have to struggle through. Therefore, our social class affects our ability to realize the American Dream because we face challenges to make ends meet, intersectionality and education because of high status.

Many Americans believe in a simple class system which includes the rich, middle, and poor. People are ranked in social classes based on their yearly income and wages. The “upper class” are the star-bellied sneetches who have prestige. High class people think they are more superior over the working and lower classes. They have more power to control a person’s decision.

Social class represents people in the society by how wealthy people are and how much power people have. In the early 19th century class began to take place. This happened by replacing terms such as rank and descriptions of classified groupings in society. The labels are working class, middle class and upper class. Working class represents people who are employed and receiving a low wage this usually involves physical work.

How does one make sense of “Class”? That is the question! Yet, the answers lie within the beholder. When I think about the question, I am led to think about the philosophies that I have acquired throughout life that intermittently supports me in comprehending societal logics. In doing so, I merely place my belief system, thoughts and perceptions aside and position myself as if I were within the shoes of other(s) mentally and physically to get the full effects of their logical explanations as to how and why those that have a lot have no compassion for others that have so little.

Accessed 26 Apr. 2017. This article talks about the indicators that help determine what kind of social class someone comes from. It continues on by stating that social class can affect an individual's personality and how they see themselves and the abilities they acquire when comparing themselves to people in other social classes. As people in different social groups view and connect with the world around them in completely different ways.

Though social classes are based on culture, situation, and personal expectation, I also think our World’s habit of prejudging and grouping people based on appearance and not bank account plays into this. That is based on us, as sinful creatures, judging those around us based on what they own, but this does not change the definition of social economic class as much as my previous points do. Personal expectation: “Believing that something is going to happen or believing that something should be a certain way.” Situation: “The way something is positioned as compared to its surroundings, or the status of the circumstances, or the combination of circumstances at a specific point in time.” Culture: “A particular set of customs, morals, codes and traditions from a specific time and place.”

advocated that education is an important attribute of class formation. “In western societies the formal organization of education in school systems meant that schools became the principal purveyors of social facts of the individual’s class status. Schools as formal institutions were linked with other social institutions in determining the structure of society and the attitudes, values and behavior of the public. In many literature, the term Socio-Economic Status is preferably used over the term class, because the former is considered to be a more neutral term than the latter one. There seems to be a tendency by British writers to use the term class and by Americans to prefer Socio-Economic Status whether they in fact are describing different