How Does Lower Class Affect Young People

Young people are affected by their class and social background producing lesser opportunities for young people in lower classes (Webster, 2004). This may lead to lower education and therefore lower paid jobs in the future. In more disadvantaged areas often many children and young people are left for long periods to parent themselves. Lower Class young people may learn more from their peers in the street, whilst more prosperous areas may experience better education and encouragement to meet their maximum outcomes (Schoon & Polek, 2011). This is more unique to young people as they are still in development and being portrayed as lower class may therefore effect their future outcomes. As children evolve in to young people their developmental stage
moves from being heavily influenced by their family toward outward influences for instance their peers and the media (Sanchez-Sosa & Poldrugo, 2013). Class and Social Background has been shown to account for differences in children ability to tackle classroom problems (Indiana University, 2014). These differences come from differences between social classes in values and parenting styles (Kohn, 1963; Webster, 2004). The media tends to concentrate on lower class young people. This impacts young people by giving a lower class stereotypical media role model. This may also effect how young people are viewed associating lower class with young people and ignoring those of higher classes. This may in turn create self-fulfilling prophecies for such young people.