Social Class Research Paper
There is a saying that ‘’fingers are not equal’’, this is one of the reasons why things cannot be equal or same in the entire world.
First and foremost, let us define social class! Social class can be define as ‘’group of people with similar levels of wealth, influence and status’’. (Cliffs Notes 2013) In my country Nigeria there are four different social classes, starting from lower, working, middle and upper class. The lower class are poor people mostly non educated, undergraduate, homeless, or less privileged. Most of these people do suffer medical care, good housing, safety and good clothing they hardly give their children education. The working class are those with little or no educations who engage in manual labour …show more content…
with little or no prestige (Cliff’s notes 2013) these people could either be maids, waitress, dishwashers, carpenters electricians, plumbers and so on this class earn low income but can cater for themselves and their households to some extent from the income they earned. The middle class could either be highly educated or averagely educated; their income is higher than that of working class, some of them are teachers, business owners, secretaries, Nurses, Doctors and so on. They can take care of their families as well from their income, have little leisure, leave in a good house, have decent clothing send their children to school but there is a limit to which they can do in terms of money spending. For instance an upper class person can decides to take flight for an hour’s journey to and fro up to several times in a month, but middle class dare not try that as one way flight must have emptied his or her account, so a middle class will prefer to travel by road and spend nine hours with little cost from his pocket.
Upper class have money than they could possibly spend, they exercise great deal of influence and power both nationally and internationally, gather expensive social clubs, send children to the finest schools and they have leisure time for cultivating a variety of interest. (Cliffs note 2013) Presently, I and my family live in a middle class and aspiring for upper class soonest. My salary and my hobby’s take care of the immediate and extended families, we lives in a decent accommodation and children have good education as well. We both have access to medical care and sometimes leisure but prudent in spending as over spending may cause us trouble, thereby affecting other things to be done especially student school fees. However, I can easily move up through aspiration as mentioned above, by furthering my education as my country don’t only consider what one can do but what you have.
Also, prudence in spending and investing in economic strengthening activities are some of the factors that can get me up there, and getting a better pay than the present salary.
Media roles in middle class Media does not stigmatize the middle class, they are the major hand in the media but even at that we all know “that he who plays the piper dictate the tune” in our society the upper class who own the media houses dictate what happens and they are the opinion moulders. The middle class have little or no recognition but they can move into either of the other bordering classes helped by activities or inactivity. The middle class form the bulk in features in the media such as entertainment, religion discussions, art and cultures, teaching and so on but do not features in media headlines. However, as income varies from month to month due to household shocks or economic changes, education strongly shapes access to the middle class by affecting the opportunity for mobility. One of socioeconomic mobility is completing primary school education. (Quarterly Americas
2011)
Summary
Lower class are so classified because they are poor and lack economic empowerment, working class are a bit more economic empowerment than lower class but are limited by their educational status, middle class are more empowerment than both lower and working class and also have education than working class while upper class are extremely rich. The middle class have no or little recognition but they form bulk features in the media.
References:
Cliffs Notes 2013, by Houston Miffling Harcourt Retrieved from: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/sciences/sociology/social-and-global-stratification/types-of-social-classes-of-people
Quarterly Americas 2011 Retrieved from: http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2152
First and foremost, let us define social class! Social class can be define as ‘’group of people with similar levels of wealth, influence and status’’. (Cliffs Notes 2013) In my country Nigeria there are four different social classes, starting from lower, working, middle and upper class. The lower class are poor people mostly non educated, undergraduate, homeless, or less privileged. Most of these people do suffer medical care, good housing, safety and good clothing they hardly give their children education. The working class are those with little or no educations who engage in manual labour …show more content…
with little or no prestige (Cliff’s notes 2013) these people could either be maids, waitress, dishwashers, carpenters electricians, plumbers and so on this class earn low income but can cater for themselves and their households to some extent from the income they earned. The middle class could either be highly educated or averagely educated; their income is higher than that of working class, some of them are teachers, business owners, secretaries, Nurses, Doctors and so on. They can take care of their families as well from their income, have little leisure, leave in a good house, have decent clothing send their children to school but there is a limit to which they can do in terms of money spending. For instance an upper class person can decides to take flight for an hour’s journey to and fro up to several times in a month, but middle class dare not try that as one way flight must have emptied his or her account, so a middle class will prefer to travel by road and spend nine hours with little cost from his pocket.
Upper class have money than they could possibly spend, they exercise great deal of influence and power both nationally and internationally, gather expensive social clubs, send children to the finest schools and they have leisure time for cultivating a variety of interest. (Cliffs note 2013) Presently, I and my family live in a middle class and aspiring for upper class soonest. My salary and my hobby’s take care of the immediate and extended families, we lives in a decent accommodation and children have good education as well. We both have access to medical care and sometimes leisure but prudent in spending as over spending may cause us trouble, thereby affecting other things to be done especially student school fees. However, I can easily move up through aspiration as mentioned above, by furthering my education as my country don’t only consider what one can do but what you have.
Also, prudence in spending and investing in economic strengthening activities are some of the factors that can get me up there, and getting a better pay than the present salary.
Media roles in middle class Media does not stigmatize the middle class, they are the major hand in the media but even at that we all know “that he who plays the piper dictate the tune” in our society the upper class who own the media houses dictate what happens and they are the opinion moulders. The middle class have little or no recognition but they can move into either of the other bordering classes helped by activities or inactivity. The middle class form the bulk in features in the media such as entertainment, religion discussions, art and cultures, teaching and so on but do not features in media headlines. However, as income varies from month to month due to household shocks or economic changes, education strongly shapes access to the middle class by affecting the opportunity for mobility. One of socioeconomic mobility is completing primary school education. (Quarterly Americas
2011)
Summary
Lower class are so classified because they are poor and lack economic empowerment, working class are a bit more economic empowerment than lower class but are limited by their educational status, middle class are more empowerment than both lower and working class and also have education than working class while upper class are extremely rich. The middle class have no or little recognition but they form bulk features in the media.
References:
Cliffs Notes 2013, by Houston Miffling Harcourt Retrieved from: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/sciences/sociology/social-and-global-stratification/types-of-social-classes-of-people
Quarterly Americas 2011 Retrieved from: http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/2152