1.With Regards To Social Class, Thorsten Veblen Believed

When Jeannette begins school in Welch, an African American girl Dinitia Hewitt and her friends harassed and beat up Jeannette for being scrawny and filthy. She is constantly made fun of because it is apparent that she lives in poverty. The other children do not accept other that aren’t like them and Jeannette is no exception. Her worn clothes and grimy hair are like a neon sign shouting about her life in poverty which makes Jeannette an easy target to bullies. Jeannette tries very hard to stand up for herself, however, the bullying only stops once other realize that living in poverty and being different was not Jeannette’s

Particular qualities connected with those who are seen as inferior, one is able to observe; lower self-esteem and self-worth, sadness or anger, and a style of clothing that is considered sloppily put together. The aspect of those who feel inferior or superior, typically linked to one’s social class. These standards of the behaviors of those in a particular social class are heavily based on depiction the media and films display. “The poor are often portrayed as ignorant, lazy, dishonest, and disinterested in self-improvement, it is likely that children in the United States come to think about and understand individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds negatively” (Wood 2005). Whereas those who exhibit superiority display qualities that exude confidence, full of self-esteem, determined, happy and dressed more professionally. Wood stated that wealthy individuals rated as more intelligent, making better grades, and making friends more easily than poor individuals (2005). Even though middle to upper class is shown with positive qualities in the majority of tv and films, those who possess status and wealth do not always display class and virtue. One may conclude that movies are responsible for the perpetual class and virtue given to the middle and upper classes only, however, the movie Crash presentations that regardless of one’s economic class, virtue is within the individual.

The concepts of class consciousness and false consciousness are related to the video because it shows the conflict between the rich and poor countries. Although the richest is less than poor, they own most of the world’s wealthy. The poorest people cannot afford the living expenses and cannot pay for education or basic medicines, but the wealthy people accumulated about 43% of world wealth and 300 rich people have the same wealth that equals to 3 billion poor people. False consciousness exists in the social inequality between poor and rich. From the video, 2 % richest people own 43% wealth shows the wealthy people get their benefits and profits from the working class through their labour force, but the poor people do not have any resources and they only get salary from them. Meanwhile, developed countries make rules, such as trade mispricing, which only benefit them and poor countries do not have positive consequences. Poor people are living under and follow the rules, which made by the wealthy people. According to the concept of class consciousness, the rules need to be changed that will happen if poor people realize the reason of poverty is the rule that against them. The working class must do something to get themselves a rule that benefit them and struggle for their own rights through the

Money and Happiness Why most of rich people are not happy with what they have? Happiness is the feeling which people feel it when they are satisfied with what they have even though these people are poor or rich. Money is the way that people use it to bring things which they can buy it by money. Sharon Begley in her article “Why Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness” states that sometimes there are relationship between money and happiness because people always try to spend less money when they want to buy somethings.

Money plays an important role in everyone’s life, but having money doesn’t mean you can buy happiness or love. A person being wealthy, having all that money can cause fame and popularity, but true happiness can never be obtained. If you have money you can buy any happiness you want. But no one thinks about the opposite side of it. If you don’t have that money, because money is something you get if you’re destined to have it. Money can be a source of limited happiness, but not for lifetime. Money does have value, but you don’t need that to be happy. It’s not necessary to have money to be happy. Sometimes people with money, can be careless, they don’t care about others. They only think about themselves, only about their happiness. This causes

All i’ve heard from others is that money is everything. That its all you need to survive. That's not true, you don't need wealth. There's people with wealth or people without wealth. That's where people rate you or how you're famous or known out there because you have you have money. Well none of that matters because we were all born to be equal nothing more, nothing less. You might think thats how its suppose to be, where someone's on top or on bottom but everyone should be treated the same.

The documentary demonstrates how these cliques, to many students, are in a social hierarchy. Where one is on this hierarchy isn't just based on personality, but is strongly tied to "the way you walk" or the "clothes you wear", meaning that those at the top are the people with "proper" mannerism and the most money, which grants you social capital. Some, particularly students of color, dismiss these notions and believe the upper class to be generally snobbish, as they think that the upper class believes themselves to be better. One teen, who has a working-class mother that is too proud to get welfare, is ashamed of his trailer home and family. Meanwhile, his mother takes 10-mile walks where she is subject to harassment to work at burger

Just watching the television is enough for the upper class to get paid well and that includes purchasing the upper-class items they put in stores for people to buy. Using Kendall’s theory of “framing class”, I will demonstrate that the upper class has an influence on our lives through their products, television, and the social media. As well as how people would like to mimic how the upper-class lives and how the media bombards the people with

However, it was disheartening to hear that sometimes when she walks at work, she encounters people who insult her by calling her “ trashy”. This opened my eyes to how some people view others of the lower and poor class and that people often judge those who are marginalized, even without listening to their story of hard work. I was also angry at the system when I heard Tammy mention how she works long hours at Burger King, yet her employers cannot give her a raise like they give other employees. Tammy’s story also taught me that being poor can make people feel shame and embarrassed at their living situation, this is evidence when Tammy’s son explain how he is embarrassed living in the trailer, how he sometimes denies his relationship with his brother and the embarrassment he feels toward his mother because of the burger clothes she wears. I was inspired by Tammy’s story because it showed me that even poor people work hard and through this hard work, they get ahead in their lives. Instead of staying in the same situation, Tammy has managed to move forward and has bought a new house. Instead of walking ten and a half miles to work, she now walks twenty minutes and still has dreams of being a teacher.

The American Dream has been talked about worldwide in some way or another. The myth is always the same. If you come to America, you can get a higher education, earn a better income, have a bigger house, have that “better life”. The dream always revolves around the same things which are education and money. This dream has been slowly dying since it is becoming less and less likely for it to become true.

Laney was born on August 11, 1994. She was the second born, and has a sister who is four years older than her. When her parents got pregnant with her, she was planned but her parents were trying for a boy. Her parents have been together since they were in high school and got married at the age of 20. Six years into their marriage they finally decided to have kids and planned for it. Laney’s mom went to beauty school and her dad went to carpentry school. Since neither of her parents went to a University, money was sparse. Both of Laney’s parents worked very hard in the beginning of their careers. Her dad started his own carpentry business in 1989 and her mom worked at a salon. Both of Laney’s parents are from Devils Lake, North Dakota but moved to Fargo in 1987 to raise a family. Her parents socioeconomic status was low when she born and had no access to medical care. Laney’s first home was a house in North Fargo.

Decisions are an important part of life, so does your social class affect the way you make decisions. Does money affect the way you make decisions, does it play that big of a factor in one's life. I am going to argue that lower class and upper class make different decisions based on the amount of money you have.

“Money poisons you when you 've got it, and starves you when you haven 't (D. H Lawrence).” The old saying money can’t buy happiness is being disproved every day. Millions of children and adults go to bed hungry every night. Many are also homeless and in danger of disease and disaster. Studies are now proving that money has a direct effect on development that can lead to happiness later in life. Children who are malnourished are at risk for learning disabilities and health issues. Adults who are financially insecure are at risk for unhealthy relationships as well as health issues and a lack of mental health. Elderly who are living close to the poverty line are at risk for health complications as well as unstable living environments and a general decrease in mental health.

Many individuals who have become mad about money tend to become rich. Most of those people normally invest in real estates and so on. Others have ended up being entrepreneurs and so on. Some of those individuals normally live in the leafy suburbs and drive expensive cars. They lead comfortable lives and so on.

Just because a person makes little money does not necessarily mean they cannot have a nice house or nice things. They work and save money for the things they have. They are proud and thankful of what they have but they do not boast about it. However, when people gain wealth they may be tempted to brag about their success. They walk around bragging about their material items, their mansion house, and the price tag on their clothes. Some boast with words. Others boast with attitude. It is ok to work hard and have those things but when you begin to be boastful you have taken the first steps toward the love of money controlling you. Many people who bring home little income choose to keep a positive mindset, whereas many of those with a very good income do not. Many people in the “lower class”, as some people have chosen to name it, are very particular about what and where their money goes to. They are happy and content with the little bit they make. On the other hand, some people of the upper class have no mindset or a negative mindset towards their money. They can care less where their money goes because in their mind they have