What Role Do Unemployment Rates Play In Social Stratification?

The more Americans employed means we as a nation are experiencing economic growth. However, if there is a high unemployment rate this interprets that more Americans are struggling in our economy. There are several types and reason for high unemployment. Though America’s unemployment rate was 5.6%, as of December 2014, every state’s unemployment rate varies for different reasons. America’s unemployment rate has a direct negative impact on our entire nation’s economy and affects individual firms, organizations, and people.

Looking at the article “Class Matters” by Peter Sacks, Social classes are divisions in society, which are based on social and economic status. People from a similar social class have a distinct level of power and wealth within a given community or country. The most common social groupings, based on status, are the upper, the middle, and the lower social classes. The precise considerations of determining these hierarchical social categories vary from time to time. Many researchers have come up with different perspectives as far as social stratification is concerned. According to Karl Marx, social stratification is a result of one's position in the hierarchy of factors of production. Therefore, social stratification is a manifestation of financial muscle within society further creating the divide within social groupings as seen through educational divides and inequalities that lie in many aspects of life.

I was thinking that a language barrier could be a contributing factor to the relatively higher unemployed rate for Hispanic or Latino. When all these factors are combine such as the one’s mention earlier, education, the level they’re integrated in society. I can definitely see why the unemployed rate for the group you fall into is relatively

One of the downfalls resulting from the Great Recession is the unemployment rate. Approximately 14 million Americans remained unemployed and about half of them were unemployed for over six months. Of that 14 million, 11.3 million of them were barely working, and if they were employed it was mainly part time jobs. Some felt that it would take over a decade to get unemployment rates back to 5%. With unemployment rates raising it also can affect the education of our nation and the future of our nation. The children's education is affected because a lot of them are switching schools and districts due to their unstable conditions at home. More and more parents are out of jobs which makes it hard for them to support their children financially in

Unemployment Issues in the United States Unemployment is one top issue that our government faces on a daily basis. Many people are being unemployed as we speak. Even though the government is trying to take a lead on this major issue, the rate of unemployment is just too high. Why I feel strongly about this issue is because many of us continue to search for jobs daily and still no reply. There are many reasons behind being unemployed and those reasons are little issues that the governor himself can fix within a year or so. We are still jobless, the minimum wage is too low and most of the jobs that pay well always ask if one Spanish.

The social stratification of people can be affected by many things. In most cases people are affected by economic factors. In class we watched documentaries that shows different economic struggles and other structural inequalities. The documentaries were Violence Next Door: Growing up in the Favelas and The Other Side of Immigration. They both showed different economic factors from different places.

Unemployment varies among, class, gender, and rate. In the article, we look at the unemployment rate among black people. Indiana is one of the five states where unemployment among black people is below national average. The state is looking for solutions such as placing a focus on education, so that way it can provide support for easing into careers, and collaborate with local businesses to provide training for basic job skills. There are also groups established such as the Indianapolis Urban League, and they help people summit resumes and provide career readiness training for families. Ultimately, the unemployment rate has its roots in the problem of poverty. Those who start their lives in poverty, statically they will never escape it. They

Undoubtedly, those who find themselves under the label “working class” are often disrespected and suffer through emotional or physical discomfort, and sometimes both, in their jobs. The disparity of inequality between the American social classes are growing bigger and the chances of individual opportunity are growing lower for middle or lower class citizens. Political activist Barbara Ehrenreich details a life of a working class individual in her text “Serving in Florida.” In her text, Barbara describes her experiences of working in jobs that the lower working class are often employed in. Through her analysis of working in these jobs, she argues that many working

The Social stratification system is the social scale that the upper class uses to keep the lower class in poverty. Many people living in poverty are considered middle class or lower-middle class. If people were to move out of poverty it would set off the balance causing more economic problems. Another cause of poverty is education; about 14 percent of the U.S. population roughly thirty million, is illiterate. The average student is unable to obtain a college education due to the high cost. If everyone had the opportunity to go to college people in the upper class would probably not be as rich as they are now, and for them that poses a problem. For this reason, minimum wage jobs were created, keeping the lower class

The United States is full of amazing things, historic landmarks, pizza, Nascar and countless other things that help set our nation apart. However there is one thing that our nation shares with every other nation in the world that isn’t so great, in fact many people would agree it is one of the worst things for a nation to have. No it’s not smallpox, it’s unemployment. Unemployment is unfortunately something a nation cannot vaccinate against. Sadly nations are always going to experience unemployment, and in some cases it can be a real issue. No one likes to hear about high rates of unemployment just like no one wants to catch a case of smallpox. Yet similar to how many people know little about the disease smallpox few people know much more about unemployment other than the current rate of unemployment. There are many factors that make up unemployment and influence it. This financial report will focus all about unemployment.

Do your parents ever ask you to get a job? Do you wish you could have a way to earn money? This is a common problem for many teenagers. Still, there could be a solution to this widespread complication. Most business owners just don't trust teens to be responsible. If we could build up support for work worthy teens, this problem is certainly solvable.

In Weber’s work on class he identified three areas of influence in social stratification. These areas are wealth, prestige and power (Davies 2018). Following this line of thought, privilege is the ability to access greater quantities of wealth, maintain strong social supports, and possess the resources needed for social mobility. Conversely, disadvantage is the combination of low levels of individual agency and high structural inequality due to the uneven distribution of wealth and opportunity, resulting in a lower capacity for social mobility (Davies 2018). When a person who is considered privileged experiences unemployment, it is likely to be with lower levels of stress and fewer negative impacts on daily life than someone who is at a disadvantage. For example, a privileged person with strong social connections may use these networks to find a new job, thus reducing the fear of long term unemployment. They are also more likely to have access to wealth in forms other than wages, such as investments, inheritances and family properties which they can turn to while in transition. The ability to make individual choices and possessing the capacity to act on those choices is known as agency (Davies 2018). For a person experiencing unemployment agency may involve being selective about the jobs they apply for, as opposed to needing to take the first available job in order to survive. These financial and social support systems decrease the urgency of employment. Nevertheless, as Humphry (2016) explains, work forms part of our identity. Consequently, privileged individuals will feel pressure to find employment to maintain an identity as a contributing member of society. For privileged individuals, unemployment may result in a threat to their identity and lifestyle, however, the lack of vulnerability they experience is an example of the continuing disparity between

The 21-st century is characterized by the continuous economic downfall. The relationship between race, class and gender should be evaluated to identify the life chances of people to improve their relative position in our socially stratified world. The increased rates of unemployment, homelessness and poverty show that our society requires implementing a transformative approach to reduce social stratification. The term social stratification is applied to identify and asses different forms of inequality that exist in the US society. Patricia H Collins suggests, “while a piece of the oppressor may be planted deep within each of us, we each have the choice of accepting that piece or challenging it as part of the 'true focus of revolutionary change'” (p. 680). Inequality has become a universal feature of our society; therefore, it exists everywhere and concerns race, class, and gender as the key categories of society.

Social stratification implies social inequality. Social stratification has to do with inequality and the way inequality categorizes

Money is essential to any individual looking to have a decent lifestyle; labor is the avenue through which this is acquired. The economy goes through various fluctuations in activity causing unemployment to fall, rise, or level out. What this creates is the first type of unemployment, known as cyclical; frictional is the second type, caused by a temporary leave (for whatever reason) by the employee, and structural is the third type, varying with the economic changes in demand. The absence of unemployment at its maximum level is termed full employment, another version of unemployment. The term encompassing the sum of the frictional, structural, and, yet another type of unemployment, surplus unemployment is that of the natural rate of