Social Class Families

This week’s reading was based upon the ideas of social stratification and how social class no matter what race you are can influence children think, behave and act. One article goes on to discuss how working class and poor children differentiate from children who are middle class. It first starts off with talking about how social class can determine the different types of parenting styles. This article discusses how working class families emphasize more on accomplishments of natural growth and little to no focus on developing children’s social talent. Another key point made in this article was the fact that working class and poor children are rarely involved in organized sports. This can influence how they are raised to think in act because in the study they did research where they spent time with kids from two different types of neighborhood one being low income and the other being children with an income of $175,000 plus. They observed how the kids acted in and outside of school and what they did during there down time. Most children who parents were focused on cultivation had activities planned for them that focused on enrichment and expanding their minds. while other kids spent a great deal of
time with family and their parents just let them grow.
The other article went into detail about the different type of systems such as slavery, estate system, class systems, and caste systems. This article more discussed power, prestige and wealth within certain societies and it defined each influence in that class system. All of these systems are closely related because often times people are born into them and may or may not have the option to get out of them and if there is a way for a person to get out of a social system it is usually very difficult and unlikely.
These article are relevant to my own experience because as person in today’s society it is important to understand social class and how that influences people and the direction their life goes.
In it allows me to reflect on my life and analyze what time of parent my parents were and what type of parent I would like to be in the future and weight he good and bad of both options because the child who grew up in the cultivation homes grew up with a sense of entitlement while the child who grew up in the natural growth home had a sense of constraint. So this may be something I would want to consider when having my own children. This will also help me reflect upon myself to see which h characteristic I feel more closely related to and try to find a solution to that
feeling.
One thing that I found to be particular in the article that I questioned was the matter of race. In the article it talks about how both black and white middle class children were raised fairly the same and I wonder how that is race usually plays a large role in many things in society but in this case race was not as much of an issue. Yes, race related to certain people being in certain social classes but in those social class they were relatively the same. I just wanted to know why that was?