Class Act: A Social Controversy

Social class has been always been in our society since its establishment. Back then, white,

In this article the author explains how the schools are based on a class system and higher-class areas have better recourses and more classes offered. Higher-class societies have better equipment, new technology, modern facilities, better books, and better teachers. Not only are the school’s educational facilities better the extracurricular activities are also better. For example sports facilities, training facilities, band, art, all because these lower class schools cant afford what these lower class schools can. Students in lower end districts are actually ending up worse off then the higher end students. Meaning attrition rate, drop out rate, sat scores and much more.

The early to mid 1900s proved to be a whirlwind for politics and society as a whole. While there were a plethora of issues to be dealt with within the Progressive Era, one of the most noteworthy issues to discuss would be that of the working class and the businessmen of the first quarter of the 1900s. The reason why these two portions of society within the Progressive Era are the most relevant to discuss stems from the fact that during the Progressive Era there was a great gap between the upper-class (businessmen) and the lower-class (working class). It was during this time that the country was experiencing great changes to its political platform with several new types of initiatives being taken. The applicability of these reforms and initiatives during this era will be talked about.

Society has always needed to take a certain initiative; to put an halt or at least tone down a certain persisting enduring. An example of such is the imbalance in power. For long since, into the very depths of history, there has been a issue in power distribution. This is true for numerous civilizations that date back all the way to the B.C time period. A example, in specific, is the reformation. Classism was too, reflected during the Reformation. The reformation was an instance in time where a man by the name of Martin Luther, proceeded to put forth opposition toward the Catholic ideology. He wished to remove the catholic church, so he organized an organization to take down the church. Whilst the war waged on, it could be noted that some degree of classism was apparent. As said before, classism is a major, recurring issue.

In this country, a college education is still vital. For many first generation students it makes the difference between continued poverty or the means of a much improved life. Yet once these students reach the campus of the typical Historically Black Colleges and Universities they are likely to be faced with what might seem like an impenetrable wall of resistance in the form of classist practices commonly found at must universities. As Fulwood (2012) suggests that in order to counteract classism, changes must be made in the systems which perpetuate it. Some of these systems mentioned earlier are the media, “White Privilege”, the economic system, government, and education institutions themselves. We must look at those policies,

It is important to identify parties or interest groups that have “skin” in the game. In other words, who are the stakeholders? As defined in project management doc.com, a stakeholder is a person or group of people who can affect or who can be affected by a given project or implementation of policy (Project Management, n.d.). The stakeholders in this case study include those in political positions, big business, concerned citizens, elite groups and those from the lower economic class. In the essay “The Masses against the Classes”, written by Ed Miliband (2012) contends that in order for a sound society to exist, the affluent and powerful must attend to the struggles of those outside of the elite class in order to maintain and survive (Miliband, 2012). Is it then, the position of Big-Mart as depicted in this case study to appear in an effort to save the struggling (classes) from the powerful elite masses? Is this

Classism is defined as a Relative social rank in terms of income, wealth, education, occupational status, and/or power. But is really is a negative or biased attitude due to the distinctions made between social classes. I believe that classism destroys the world due to the categories that society has invented in our minds. Classism is expressed in numerous amounts of ways; a few examples would be through social class, sexual preference, racism, and the media. The economy easily breaks down people into a certain class to define whether should be known as someone to remember or someone who can easily be forgotten. People who are wealthy are able to take advantage of the class they are put in, which is of course the superior class. They are able

Americans used to teach their children that words can’t hurt you. This was a way for parents to comfort their children when they were faced with bullying. In society today, that thought process has changed. Words and labels can hurt people, just not physically. According to Herbert Gans, he believes that labeling a group of people can hinder their mobility in a society.

Social class refers to the system of stratification of the different groups of people in a society. These different forms of classification are, in most instances, based on gender ethnicity and age. Social class makes everyone’s lives extremely different. For example: How long one can expect to live. In a wide range of ways, from success, to one’s health class, social class influences people’s lives (Grusky,2003).

One of the concerns regarding social justice in education is that there are marginalised groups within society do not having equal access to the learning and life opportunities that they deserve. The concept of social justice stresses that every individual within society is entitled to have equal rights and opportunities. This means that an individual from a lower class background deserves the same opportunities as a person from a wealthier background. It is about becoming aware and recognising that there are certain situations where the application of the same rules to unequal groups can sometimes lead to imbalanced results. It is therefore crucial that the government create a curriculum that can empower every student regardless of their

The idea of social inequality dates back since the time of our founding fathers. The mistreatment and unlawful equality and opportunity that these foreigners received became embedded into our history—this endless list includes, just to name a few, the Irish, Chinese, Jews, and most notably the African Americans (Blacks), who became slaves to the American people. Here in the United States, the current social class system is known as the class system, where families are distributed and placed into three different existing class—the upper class (wealthy), middle class (working), and lower class (poor). Since then, improvisations have been worked on into the class system, establishing now roughly six social classes: upper class, new money, middle class, working class, working poor, and poverty level. Social stratification is a widely common topic of debate because there have since been many arguments and debates on this controversial situation of social inequality and how it relates to social class and social mobility. According to Economist Robert Reich, he states that "The probability that a poor child in America will become a poor adult is higher now than it was 30 years ago..." (Reich, par. 5), meaning the given amount of equality, opportunity, and support that these struggle families obtain have gone mainly unnoticed by the government that it has gotten worst. The constant uproar of social inequality and injustice that these middle and lower working class families stem

The next objective that Reform Taskforce 29 looks to accomplish is to rethink the way FIFA is governed. Sepp Blatter, the former President of FIFA throughout all of the corruption allegations, led the organization for 17 years. In 2015, many top executives were arrested on suspicion of corruption while attending FIFA meetings. These executives accepted kickbacks and other incentives from nations bidding the host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. Following the arrest of these individuals, Blatter resigned his position of President just days after winning an election to remain in office. Blatter was under suspicion of corruption after a large payment was made to Michel Platini, President of UEFA, Europe’s football confederation, for what Blatter explains as “advisory work.” While many programs and initiatives were completed under the leadership of Blatter, we need to discover beneficial strategies to elect non-corrupt leadership in a democratic and fair manner. Our first action to complete this objective is to limit the length of a president’s term in office. According to Emmanuel Bayle, “FIFA must follow the International Olympic Committee’s example and limit presidential terms of office...This would improve democracy throughout the organization and prevent cults building up around omnipotent, lifelong leaders” (Bayle, 2015.) Our second action to complete this objective would create a smaller and more diverse FIFA executive committee. This FIFA executive committee should meet six times a year, two more than the current committee, in order to provide checks and balances on the president’s power. “The new committee should be reduced in size, contain more women, be more professional and include independent administrators with skills in areas such as marketing, law and finance” (Bayle, 2015.) The final action to complete this objective would be to create an international organization that regulates sport governance (Bayle, 2015.) FIFA could team up with

The definition of Classism is prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class. If someone is rich people might think that they are rich because of their parents; however, they might have worked their butts of to get to that point. This quote by David Anderson proves my point “We attended good schools because we studied hard. We’re not legacies: Nobody else in our families attended an Ivy League school. If you met us 20 years ago, you would have seen two 25-year-olds with no money, swimming in student loans in a roach-infested studio apartment in Manhattan” (Anderson). There is also another side to the wall, people might think that people in poverty are not educated, did not use their opportunities, or they did

At first glance it might appear that a study of first generation students would naturally reflect a racial relationship and race would be the “ism” that is most influential on first generation students’ university attrition. This is especially true when the focus of the study is turned toward historically black colleges and universities. Additionally, a case could be built for the racial “ism” aspect of the study by focusing on the history of HBCU and the large concentration of first generation African Americans that attend predominately Black schools. However, in developing the idea for the proposed research, the “ism” which has the most meaning and connectivity to the topic is classism.

The Importance of Being Earnest is set in the Victorian Era where social class is important. Social interactions were independent within an upper class and the lower class. The upper class kept their social interaction strictly within their class. When it came to the issue of marriage, it was the same. People in the upper class would only marry in their respected class in order to maintain or improve their financial status. Names were important because of their reputations in the upper class. Being Earnest is important because it inspires confidence regardless of its commonality within the upper class.