Common Thread between Culture and Class
What common thread do culture and class have? How do culture and class work together in society? How do they work separately?
Culture and Class have two very different definitions. Culture means the beliefs, customs, and arts, of a particular society. Class means the system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status. Class is more than just how much money you have. It’s also the clothes you wear, the music you like, the school you go to and that has a strong influence on how you interact with others. In the article I found online “Current Directions in Psychological Science” People from lower classes have fundamentally different ways of thinking about the world than people in upper classes. People often believe that people in the upper class live in a completely different culture than those in the lower class. The upper class often have different norms and a way of living than those in the lower class. Society oftens thinks that upper class should be responsible for bringing up the lower class and being able to help them become financially stable.
While reading articles in class, we could learned about class and inequity. In the article “Needs” it covered how people assume they need something, when in reality it is something they want. Our society today doesnt know the difference between needs and wants. We as a society are very privileged but yet we don’t see that and we always want more. Needs are not a given privileged, we have to work for it. In the article “On Compassion” the author addresses acts of kindness among more wealthy people and needy people. Her approach is encouraging compassion, learn it and using it to spread positive vibes from class to class. In this article, they suggest that everyone plays a specific role in our society. Along with articles about class, we learned about culture. In the article “I want a wife” it shows our culture expectations of female gender roles. The
Culture and Class have two very different definitions. Culture means the beliefs, customs, and arts, of a particular society. Class means the system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status. Class is more than just how much money you have. It’s also the clothes you wear, the music you like, the school you go to and that has a strong influence on how you interact with others. In the article I found online “Current Directions in Psychological Science” People from lower classes have fundamentally different ways of thinking about the world than people in upper classes. People often believe that people in the upper class live in a completely different culture than those in the lower class. The upper class often have different norms and a way of living than those in the lower class. Society oftens thinks that upper class should be responsible for bringing up the lower class and being able to help them become financially stable.
While reading articles in class, we could learned about class and inequity. In the article “Needs” it covered how people assume they need something, when in reality it is something they want. Our society today doesnt know the difference between needs and wants. We as a society are very privileged but yet we don’t see that and we always want more. Needs are not a given privileged, we have to work for it. In the article “On Compassion” the author addresses acts of kindness among more wealthy people and needy people. Her approach is encouraging compassion, learn it and using it to spread positive vibes from class to class. In this article, they suggest that everyone plays a specific role in our society. Along with articles about class, we learned about culture. In the article “I want a wife” it shows our culture expectations of female gender roles. The