Social Class And Economic Inequality

Individuals within a society are grouped into certain rankings that is based on their wealth, income, race and education known as the social stratification. Sociologist use this to determine the social standings of individuals within a society. Social stratification can also appear in much smaller groups. These groups such as the work place, schools, and businesses can “take the form of a distribution of power and authority down the ranks”. (Cole, 2017) The Caste system is also another form of stratification that one does not get a choice in. They are born into it and regardless of their talents will hold positions that are given to them their whole life. Social mobility is the ability for individuals to move about their social standings.

Social class is a “tag” to define your status in a community. One of the main requirements you must have to be in the Upper class, is to have wealth and power. That is basically it, and obviously the absence of those characteristics could mean you are in a Middle or even in the Lower class. Sports are an activity that people do for pleasure that requires physical activity and sometimes has rules for the players to follow in order to play the game. It is most commonly played outdoors. It can improve your cardio, health, and physical condition. For example, it can prevent things like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer or even mental illnesses like depression.

In modern the modern day United states, Americans face a problem that drastically affects the way we have to live life. Our healthcare system has become drastically irregular and unequal in the current system. After thorough analyzation of the provided CTSIP tables one can clearly see the gap between economic and social classes that exists in the current structure and can place the said data into both a functionalist and marxist perspective.

Economic stratification is the different rankings in social class are separated in different economic ways. These differences can vary from clothing, cars, perfumes, cigarette brands, etc. There are many ways you can tell what a person stratification is just by the way they look or the things they have. Usually these ranking go from lower class to middle class then the upper class. Each of these classes have very different ways of living and what they do to maintain a certain status.

As the United States faces the unceasing economics and political ills of income inequalities between social classes, the glory period of the dominant middle-class “diamond-shaped” society may be beginning to alter. Following the end of World War II in 1945, the middle class began to wear the crown of the most successful and resolute class due to new social programs and the rising economy. “In the second half, roughly from the mid-1970s, this process went into reverse. Set on apparent autopilot, the gains from growth were heavily colonized by the superrich, leaving the bulk of the workforce with little better than stagnant incomes.”(Lansley, 2014). However, this view point varies from person to person. (Bruce D. Meyer, 2014) perceives this

1.) How does social class, inequality, and unequal access to resources relate to your social issue?

When it came to low-income, working life was arduous to making a living off of it. It was difficult to maintain low wage-paying jobs as repetitive manual work were being replaced with technology. Minority members such as African Americans and females were more likely to be working as temporary workers (Boyce). They were not able to maintain as many permanent jobs which limited them to remain in the low-socioeconomic status. This continued the wealth disparity between races. Holding temporary occupational positions increased threefold for nonfatal occupational injury, and it increased two and a half times for fatal occupational injuries (Benavides). This supports how being in a low socioeconomic status increased morbidity levels. Low socioeconomic

Recently social class In America has definitely impacted the economy. Due to the fact that there are several jobs available to the public, but limited because of social status. According to some sources there are three different types of social classes in America such as, high class, middle class, and lower class. On the other hand there is an elite class which has all the power, then the upper class, the middle class, who really don’t have power, the lower-middle class also known as the working class, which gives power to the upper class, and last but not least you have the lower class that is unemployed and still suffering. On the other hand According to some economists, class statuses depend on the demographical, physiological, socioeconomic, and psychographic; that is groups of people. The economy increases or decreases depending upon the assembly, distribution, and consumption of a certain amount of goods and services by different people in a given geographic location.

There is often times a rift seen in any type of system, two groups at minimum will emerge and try to gain power. It has been seen the most in government with the two political parties of the Democrats and the Republicans. This is evident in other systems because of the increased need in humans to gain and take whatever power that they might be able to. Not far off from government, this is seen in the economy, but it isn’t a longterm, straightforward battle. The two forces fighting against another are the social classes of the rich and the poor. This isn’t a battle for power on the side of the poor, but for equality and stability, while control is what the rich have, and what they intend to keep a hold of. There is a gap that between the rich and the poor, that recently has rapidly increased. In the question of the gap there is a growing concern that the separation can cause an economic depression if it is to keep up like it has been. The battle between the classes of the rich and the poor has extended itself by many years due to the differences in wages, unemployment, and inflation in the economy.

Inequality has been a topic of discussion in the United States—as well as the vast majority of the world—for a significant period of time now. While there is no denying that inequality exists, I believe that it has become assumed to be the underlying problem in a lot of cases where it doesn’t necessarily apply. There are a number of problems in society that can’t be fixed because the solution is designed around the idea that inequality is the issue, and if people were to identify the true underlying problem in a lot of cases: social class, then we can concoct a solution to address the

There are different ways of interpreting social class inequality in education and Pierre Bourdieu offers one such interpretation. Discuss his particular perspective and reflect on how it makes you think about your work as a primary school teacher. Ensure you reference readings in your answer. In the ‘Forms of Capital’ Pierre Bourdieu develops the idea of capital, with a focus on the economic component. He discusses the main types of capitals, economic, cultural and social. Bourdieu states how the various types of capital may be attained, converted or exchanged into other forms. Cultural Capital (CC) is heavily linked to concepts of habitus. Perhaps one’s cultural capital can be acquired from an individual’s habitus. Bourdieu explains that this form of capital ‘explains the unequal scholastic achievement of children

World is facing its crucial challenge; the gap between the rich and the poor, also known as income inequality. This gap is widening and is abysmal. Although income inequality is beneficial at some certain point because it arouse capital growth and technological innovation, I will show that income inequality harms society for it leads to uneven access to health and education and it stifles economic growth that pose serious barrier to social development.

A. Class stratification runs on 3 main points: Power (legal ability, capacity or authority granted on a person/persons), Prestige (a reputation or influence arising from success) and Privilege (a special right or immunity) with these being the root of social stratification it’s easy to see why inequality in universal with the bourgeoisie (the elite 2% of the world) controlling the proletariat (working class society.)

The fifth section is about the importance of social class and social justice in our society. Social class is one of the “isms” that people do not really think about even though people judge you based on this all the time in our society. The term social justice is used to help make things fair in our society. This term helps to advocate for the distribution of wealth or opportunities more equally in our society. In this section, it mentioned many biases that people have and that counselors typically learn these factors while on the job. This section mentioned one example of counselor bias, that clinicians are probably most familiar and comfortable when working with the

When approaching how certain factors play into the lives of individual people, we isolate a person’s experience and compare it to society as a whole. In order to understand societal impacts of racism, sexism, classism, and other sociological issues we must recognize our own struggles and connect them back to society. Due to our contrasting socioeconomic backgrounds, a generational gap formed to shape my life to be vastly different from my mother’s life. My mother is a Laotian refugee that immigrated to the United States during the Vietnam War when she was just a toddler, and like many Southeast Asians, struggled to assimilate to the American lifestyle. Immigrating to America meant that her family was of the lower class which affected her from gaining upward social mobility. In this paper I will argue that unequal balance in class differences affected how it shaped our lives. I am going to focus on how my privilege differs with hers by comparing our education and how I was able to increase my ability to advance my social mobility.