My earliest experience with inequality happened in the first grade through the type of reinforcements my teachers would give us. “Do your homework and study or you will end up poor with a bad job like a janitor or a trash man,” was something that I commonly heard from them almost daily. I can remember the janitors during my primary school days were constantly looked down on and how no one talked or paid much attention to them. The most interaction that I would see other staff members have with them was when directing them to a spill in the cafeteria or when something needed cleaning. I would hear other teachers complain about their jobs to one another and in order to make themselves feel better they would say “At least I am not the lazy janitor.” In hearing this, I grew up with the mindset that those types of jobs were only suited for the poor and lazy. It was not until I started my career did I notice just how hard the janitors and support staff actually have to work. In watching a 60 year old woman riding up and down elevators, cleaning the insides and outsides of doors, and squatting on her knees to get the in the cracks just for them to get dirty again within minutes; did I realize just how wrong those teachers and I were. While talking to the janitorial staff is when I noticed just how unequal things really were for them. Their hours and jobs were in constant flux or in danger of being cutout all together while the tasks that were asked of them constantly increased. Anyone that had an issue was asked to leave because…
In society there are many different factors which divide us and result in social inequality. In this essay, I will be covering social class. Karl Marx believed that in society, there are two major social classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariats. The bourgeoisie are basically the upper class; in order for you to be classed as a part of them you must own the means of production such as factories etc. In order for these factories to run, they would need workers, which is where the proletariats come in. The proletariat only owns their labour force which they sell in order for a wage. Karl Marx stated that the proletariats are exploited through low pay and poor work conditions, but due to capitalism, we deal with it as were tied down to the economy.…
Social inequality is the issue pertaining to the lack of housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, and status. It is the dismissal of people from participation in what we, the members of society distinguish as being valuable, important, socially desirable, and personally worthwhile. There are many different perspectives on social inequality within our society; the three areas I am going to focus on are those of the Functionalist, Conflict and Symbolic-Interactionist.…
Inequality are the clear boundaries in society that prevent people from attaining equal status, opportunities, or positions. Social inequality occurs when the process of distributing resources is unequal. On a day-to-day basis, I do not believe that I contribute to inequality but recognize the opportunities and positions I hold that further the gap between an equal society. Growing up within the middle class has allowed me access to a higher level of education. Higher levels of education lead to higher paying jobs contributing to unequal income distribution. Although the level of education is achieved, it still produces inequalities. Healthcare inequality is another example of how my given opportunities and positions further the gap between…
Economic inequality in the United States has increased tremendously throughout the past decades and has consequently led to many social conditions that negatively impact the lower and middle class. The unequal distribution of income and wealth is primarily due to the capitalist government economy that deregulates markets as well as globalization and technological advances. Political inequality is similarly another consequence that results from the economic disparity that further affects democracy and political representation of many Americans. This likewise leads to the creation of social movements, in which many unprivileged Americans seek government attention to overcome the inequality that exists amongst the socioeconomic classes.…
Income inequality means that there is no equality between people. Also, there are big differences between the rich and everyone else. This problem grows year after year. Some people become poor and other become rich. The American Dream is related to income because everyone who wants to achieve the American Dream must have a great income. Rich and poor people are all human beings, but poor people have stolen money from each other because they do not have a great experience to get money. Rich people have great experience in business because they received from his or her family, also they study in great school and university. In addition, education is one of the greatest things to have the huge income. People who study in higher education will…
I enjoyed reading your post. When I thought of privilege, I thought it was a person or people that grew up in upper class, that they were born into wealth and had not work as hard as someone who is lower class, or middle class to get where they are. You look at the media and how Caucasians who had committed worst crimes get lesser time than an African American who committed a non violent crime or same crime as a Caucasian get harsher time. I also agree privilege can be applied to different regions and language because rural communities have more opportunities as far as more jobs, better pay while poorer communities do not offer that many jobs and lesser pay.…
When we hear the word “America” we often think of independence, opportunity, and success. Equal opportunity can be defined as every individual granted a fair chance and should be treated the same. The opportunity should overlook religion, race, sex, ethnicity, etc. For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been studying the nature of inequality and how it’s had a negative impact on society. From the outside looking in, it seems as if America is the land of equal opportunity, however, that is not accurate. The United States is not the land of equal opportunity. People of different races have to fight daily for fair opportunities. Inequality affects the ability of people who wants to improve the standards of their lives and contribution to society.…
Income inequality has been, and continues to be, an issue among the different genders and ethnicities in the United States. The gap continues to widen not only between men and women, but also among other women when age, ethnicity, appearance, and physical limitation biases are taken into account.…
America is supposed to be all about equality, but if you take a serious look around, you will see that there is human rights issue going on all over America; this is just one of them. Things need to be reevaluated and adjusted as things change and growth happens, America do not seem to roll with the changes very well and are stuck in a moralistic, religious, patriarchal system. In recent years, the major concerns of economic development is the study of poverty, the income distribution and growth in the less developed countries or from all over the world have been doing researches and studies on how to induce a growth in those under developed countries.…
Barach, David. The Wanton Wages if Income Inequality. January 13th, 2012. The Chronicle of Higher Education. <http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-wages-of-inequality/43020>.…
If people aren’t earning enough a lot of money, all they need to do is work harder they’ll get ahead.…
Life in present-day America is very unequal. There are wide gaps in income distribution which causes negative impacts on the everyday lives of most Americans. This income gap is wider than at any other time in the past century. The United States has the largest gap between rich and poor than any other democratic country in the world. Income inequality has negative effects on the entire society. American minority groups and women earn less money than their white counterparts. The educational system in the country is suffering ranking fourteenth among industrialized nations. Research shows that the wealthier a person is the longer their lifespan will be. Increased crime rates in the poorer inner cities…
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, but why? Many subcategories of inequality lead to the bigger heading of social inequality. Social inequality is the inability of people to have equal opportunity (Fonza and Owen). Social inequality and urban poverty are such rampant problems today due to systematic racism, pay inequality, and gentrification.…
In today's generation so much inequality is occurring. Inequality in race, disability, gender, wealth, economics, and religious beliefs. What is inequality? Inequality is having difference in size, degree, circumstances, etc. ; lack of equality. When inequality occurs it could be very serious depending on what it is for. Inequality happens everywhere, sometimes so bad, no body realizes it. Everyone is different in what they think and or believe, and that should be exceptional to every human. But, there are also ways people live to agree with each other in. Inequality has made a difference in the way people see other people, inequality in race, disabilities, religious beliefs, economics, and religious beliefs.…