Social Classes Essay

Social Class is defined as the category of people who share approximately the same lifestyle. Lloyd Warner has identified six social classes in the United States: upper-upper, upper-lower, upper-middle, lower-middle, upper-lower, lower-lower. I would say that my family and I belong to the lower-middle class. The middle class is divided among two parts: upper-middle class and lower-middle; the upper-middle is composed of white-collar professionals such as physicians, lawyers, and bank presidents.…

People that lived during the Gilded Age experienced fierce divisions which caused distinct social classes. The poorest of these classes was the working class, consisting of society’s labor force. Despite working an average of 70-80 hours a week, most members of the working class “lived in constant poverty and economic insecurity” (1). It was common for families or single working men to live in dark apartments and overcrowded tenement houses. The driving factors behind the harsh living conditions…

novel, Swift explores social classes by using different sized people to show how power causes people to treat others. In part I of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver finds himself on an island after his ship wrecked during a severe storm. The inhabitants of the island, the Lilliputians, initially attack him with “an hundred…

poor, poorer. Distinct social classes were established and everyone was working to be at the top. As much as one worked, they would spend, causing a lower social status and sometimes a downfall in their everyday lives. Alike,…

Gatsby and Lennie’s dreams both remain generally the same through diverse social classes they encounter during the novels. In Lennie’s social class it is hard for him to obtain his dream with his poverty because only the strongest survive on the ranch. In Of Mice and Men Crooks says “I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one…

the 1800s they didn’t have any of that stuff so when Tom Sawyer (Tom) and Huckleberry Finn (Huck) from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn find all of this money it really doesn’t change their life a ton. Huck and Jim see all types of different social classes on their journey that they are taking down the Mississippi River, from the people that don’t really earn their money the right way, the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class. Huck doesn’t want anything to do with…

topic is that people in the lower social classes think that since they are in the lower class in society they have no means of moving up in social classes. That is where social mobility comes into play. Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, or even between strata in a society. Given the definition of social mobility, I truly do believe that people in the lower, middle, or even in the higher prestige classes can all enjoy the American Dream. Social mobility may be ailing but…

During the Victorian Age, classism played an important role in social relationships. People of the upper-class did not socialize with the lower classes because they felt as if they were not equals. The novels Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen describe two different classes, yet they contain two similar characters: Esther, a young woman residing with her sister and family, and Lydia Bennet, a fifteen-year-old girl living with her parents and four sisters.…

about a girl who is poor who goes to an expensive toy store and feels out of place. As anyone would be if you were on a field trip and you were poor, you would also come to the realization of how unequal it is between social classes. One of the main characters introduced the idea of social inequality to these group of kids, her name was Miss Moore. Sylvia who also happens to be one of the main characters has a very sarcastic and pessimistic view on life. There are other characters such as…

levels at this time: clergy, nobles, and traders or general labor workers. The merchants and tradesmen were rising and becoming higher than lower class. These segments of society are breaking down because the middle classes are emerging into society. Chaucer depicts abuse of social classes, especially the clergy.…