Social Classes: Our Greatest Setback Growing up you get asked what you want to be when you grow up. You are told that you can be anything, an astronaut, NBA star or even President of the United States. You are told with hard work, anything is possible but is that really true? The prophet Jesus once said to love your neighbor for everyone is made in his image. How many people actually love their neighbor. People tend to judge others on their place in the social class system. Why is this? What social class you belong to and interacting between two different social classes may cause conflict. Before diving deeper into this subject, we must define conflict. Conflict Theory is defined by The Real World: An Introduction to Sociology as “a paradigm
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I saw this woman who appeared to be around 5ft 4in and African American. The first thing I noticed was the undesirable clothing she was wearing tight spandex on her pants yet she was very overweight so it looked kind of nasty. She was also wearing a red t-shirt that looked a little too tight on her. She had 5 kinds around her all under the age of about 8. Her hair was short and red. It looked like a wig. She was having a hard time controlling her kids for they were being loud and disruptive. She has no jewelry or tattoos that I could see. She walked with a waddle kind of like a penguin for she was very overweight. I followed her out and acted like I was going to my car. She had a late 1990s GMC Jimmy. It was green and was very rusty and looked like it was not being taken care of. I immediately thought that this woman was lower middle class/ lower class and below the poverty line. She just looked like a mess. I felt sorry for …show more content…
I went to Saint Thomas Academy for high school. A very elite school with a lot of upper class. Many times, my friends and classmates would bash many public schools like South Saint Paul and Sibley, mainly for fun and a rivalry but sometimes because they thought that public schools were below STA. A sense of entitlement grows on you at STA. STA is also a Catholic school. We had mass for almost every event. Talking about Jesus giving to the poor, etc. Many Republicans that I know talk about the lower class as peasants. Lower Class people are told that they are lazy and don’t want to work their way into the middle class. Based on what I saw with the African American women at Target, I can see why people accuse the lower class of being lazy. Nothing against lower class people but when you dress dirty and have no care for how you look and don’t take care of your car, people are only going to think negatively. It is up to you to change that but you cant do it all by yourself. People being forced to help the poor through government programs like welfare causes conflict. It is a latent function. A latent function is “the less obvious, perhaps unintended functions of a social structure” (Ferris 24). The prophet Jesus once said to love your neighbor for everyone is made in his image. How many people actually love their neighbor. People tend to judge others on their place in the social class
I saw this woman who appeared to be around 5ft 4in and African American. The first thing I noticed was the undesirable clothing she was wearing tight spandex on her pants yet she was very overweight so it looked kind of nasty. She was also wearing a red t-shirt that looked a little too tight on her. She had 5 kinds around her all under the age of about 8. Her hair was short and red. It looked like a wig. She was having a hard time controlling her kids for they were being loud and disruptive. She has no jewelry or tattoos that I could see. She walked with a waddle kind of like a penguin for she was very overweight. I followed her out and acted like I was going to my car. She had a late 1990s GMC Jimmy. It was green and was very rusty and looked like it was not being taken care of. I immediately thought that this woman was lower middle class/ lower class and below the poverty line. She just looked like a mess. I felt sorry for …show more content…
I went to Saint Thomas Academy for high school. A very elite school with a lot of upper class. Many times, my friends and classmates would bash many public schools like South Saint Paul and Sibley, mainly for fun and a rivalry but sometimes because they thought that public schools were below STA. A sense of entitlement grows on you at STA. STA is also a Catholic school. We had mass for almost every event. Talking about Jesus giving to the poor, etc. Many Republicans that I know talk about the lower class as peasants. Lower Class people are told that they are lazy and don’t want to work their way into the middle class. Based on what I saw with the African American women at Target, I can see why people accuse the lower class of being lazy. Nothing against lower class people but when you dress dirty and have no care for how you look and don’t take care of your car, people are only going to think negatively. It is up to you to change that but you cant do it all by yourself. People being forced to help the poor through government programs like welfare causes conflict. It is a latent function. A latent function is “the less obvious, perhaps unintended functions of a social structure” (Ferris 24). The prophet Jesus once said to love your neighbor for everyone is made in his image. How many people actually love their neighbor. People tend to judge others on their place in the social class