Social Classes Essay

I really enjoyed the readings this week, while there were several, they were shorter readings and I was able to focus my attention on each individual one. I thought the reading on classism, Mantsios, Chapter 25: Class in America—2006, pp. 150-156, was especially interesting and not something we have talked much about in class. I work with children and families in the educational realm, but there eligibility for participation is based on income. While I superficially understand the oppression…

Fashion played an important role in the Elizabethan Era. The clothes worn were the identity of the person and how much money they had or what social class they were in. Fancy and royal are some words that describe the clothing of the Elizabethan Era. Fashion trends today have drastically changed from the trends in the 1500-1600’s. The materials used for clothing in the 1500-1600’s are somewhat different from what we use today. In the Elizabethan Era men wore silk and velvet with fur. Men were…

accessories or belongings to indicate social class? This is would be interesting to see because in the documentary, People Like Us, it was seen how much people judge each other by their outward appearance and personal belongings. The first thought about someone is made with the observers eyes, that first meeting could forever change the way you see that person. With that first encounter you walk away with a preconceived idea of their class level, income and social skills. All humans judge and…

learned was, (what is social stratification and what it does for us.) Social Stratification is basically the unequal distribution of resources amongst a society, where the upper class has more rewards than the bottom class. I learned where social stratification stems from: Although the social class you are born into has a significant weight on what social class you are in, it’s not the only determining factor. Other key factors include income, investment capital, skill capital, social capital,…

gentleman is not new to Pride and Prejudice but has its roots in the medieval ages of Chaucer’s times. Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice highlights the social turmoil and class conflicts between the upper class and the middle class of the early 18th and late 19th century England. Through the themes of courtship and marriage Austen artfully creates a social circle with fictional characters belonging to the upper class ‘landed gentry’ and the middle class. However her focus is on the middle…

There are a myriad of people that are treated differently because of their social class and background, things that don’t really identify a person! In the short story the “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker and the poem “Borders” by Denice Frohman, you meet two characters, Ana Maria and Rosaura, who aren’t being treated the same as everyone else because of their backgrounds. Both “Borders” and “The Stolen Party” Show inequality, between the main characters and the other people in their stories.…

The industrial revolution woke up the sense of humanity in people, yet at the same time It turned it off. To begin with, from the year 1819 through 1901, Great Britain was beginning to face an all new era called the Victorian Era. In fact, this era was named like that, because of queen Victoria. Also, this era was very important because it introduced medical advances, scientific knowledge, technological knowledge that helped increase work efficiency. However, not all the things that occurred…

David Herbert Lawrence was born in 11th September 1885 in England Nottinghamshire and was not from the wealthy family. His Father was semi-literate coal miner and his mother was more educated than his father which led to the conflict in the house. Lawrence started his life from lower working class background to the intellectual class and he gained international reputation as an important twentieth century author. According to Harris (1984), Lawrence wrote Sons and Lover in 1913 and The Rocking…

events affect the working class whom have adopted predominantly female roles, such as infant care, and their middle class counterparts whose privilege and fortune allows them to maintain a ‘masculine morality’[1]. The idea that morals are determined by social position suggests…

relation than the past, however. The relationships that individuals have with each other in order to fulfill basic needs is quite an important subject to cover when discussing a nation. The interest to be delved into at the moment is the development of classes in Japan, especially during the Yayoi and Kofun periods. The obvious stages of class development are primitive communalism, feudalism and capitalism. A class is a group of people sharing common relations to labor and the means of…