David's Views On Social Class Differences

Social class means grouping people according to their merit, educational back ground, economic status, family they grew up and so on. Human beings have different ideology about many things based on the social class where they are grouped. My uncle, David, 56, is grouping in lower class society. When I compare his attitude with middle and higher class people based on the importance of education, child rearing, and healthy diet, he is totally different. He follows very traditional life. For one thing, he believes that education isn’t important than working hard and making a money. According to his belief going to school to get education has different disadvantages. For instance, he thinks going to school is a waste of time and money. David says that, “Instead of buying books, pens, and laptops for educational purpose, it is important to buy a car and paid off it”. Also, he thinks education has a lot of worries and stress. He says he doesn’t want to do a lot of home works, class works, and assignments, and he believes it is stressful to study day and night to take quizzes and exams. Based on his understand, he wants to use the time he spend in the school for making a business. He always says that, “If you work hard and save money you
can have whatever you want”. On the opposite, higher class people enjoy education and get a lot of benefits form it. The other thing, he follows traditional child rearing methods.
Because of his lower class attitude, he really doesn’t know how to manage his kids. Instead of advising and counseling he dared to use physical and verbal punishments. He never realizes how to teach and guide his children positively. Furthermore, he discourages his kids asking questions. Specially, he is angry if he sees them ask questions elderly people. He considers that asking questions elderly people is disrespectful manner. Totally, his arrogance and pompous manner make him to be dictator for his family. He doesn’t want to respect his children rights. He neither allows them to playing with other kids or to going to school. He required them to do only what he
wants. Third, He follows very traditional eating habit. Because he is not well educated, he doesn’t know which diet is healthy or not. He never worries that what type of food is important to live longer. Further, he is casual what kind of food his kids eating. For him the purpose of eating food means just to full the belly. Also, he doesn’t know which food is rich in protein, vitamin, carbohydrate, and iron. When he goes to grocery stories to buy foods, he fills the shopping cart by junk foods. Due to that, his children’s became obese. His first daughter, Emily, who is a college student, weight 202 ponds. At the end, social class effect has played its role on my uncle. His attitude towards education, eating habit, and child rearing is poor. From this point of view, I notice that people eating, dressing, and acting based on their social class. Because David is in lower class group, he eats a lot of junk foods. Also, he tries to teach his children by screaming, shouting and punching. Thus, higher class people shall give advice for lower class people about the importance of education. Being poor or rich doesn’t matter on peoples’ class, but being uneducated have a lot of matters. He could have changed his lower class statues if he went school and get education. children rearing child rearing. So, education is a key to improve someone’s social class.